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State    Officers,  Etc. 

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Containing  Portrait  Engravings  of  the  Members  and  Officers  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly, 

with  Brief  Biographical  Sketch  of  Each,  also 

Portrait  Engravings  and  Biographical  Sketches  of  the  State  Officers,  Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court, 

Railroad  and  Warehouse  Commissioners  and  Other  State  Officials. 


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price  ®ne  Dollar 


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Scrogge  R  Bavie 

Jefferson  Gltg,  /fto. 


SEDALIA.  MISSOURI: 

SEDALIA  PUINTING  COMPANY,    PRINTERS,   BINDERS  AND  BLANK-BOOK  MAKERS. 

1897. 


GOVERNOR'S    MANSION. 


PREFACE. 

THE  publishers  of  this  Souvenir  Book  of  the  Missouri  Legislature  for  1897-8  feel  that  they  owe  a  few  words  of 
explanation,  possibly  of  apology,  to  the  public.  The  shortness  of  time  allowed  for  gathering  material,  and  the 
difficulties  under  which  it  has  been  arranged  for  publication  have  necessarily  rendered  the  work  less  perfect  than  we 
would  desire.  We  found  the  Missouri  legislators,  for  the  most  part,  thoroughly  absorbed  in  their  public  duties,  and  it 
was  extremely  difficult  to  gain  their  attention  long  enough  to  obtain  the  necessary  data  for  a  complete  work.  It  was  essen- 
tial to  make  each  member  understand  it  was  not  an  effort  to  advertise  himself,  but  that  he  was  simply  contributing  his 
part  toward  a  work  which  should  prove  a  source  of  pleasure,  in  the  years  to  come,  not  only  to  those  who  are  mentioned 
in  the  book,  but  to  every  one  into  whose  hands  it  may  fall.  Laboring  thus  to  overcome  the  modesty  of  the  members, 
and  then  to  get  the  work  ready  for  the  press,  has  severely  taxed  the  energies  and  talents  of  the  publishers,  and  they 
therefore  entreat  the  reader  to  view  with  leniency  any  imperfection  that  may  be  discovered  in  the  book.  At  the  same 
time  we  feel  that  in  gathering  these  biographies  and  portraits  of  Missouri's  distinguished  sons  we  have  rendered  a 
service  to  the  State  and  to  posterity,  and  we  take  pride  in  our  work.  Possibly  our  feeble  effort  may  prove  a  substan- 
tial benefit  to  the  future  historian  when  he  comes  to  make  up  the  record  of  this  eventful  age  and  the  distinguished  men. 
But  we  shall  be  amply  repaid  if,  in  the  years  to  come,  the  members  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly,  looking 
back  to  the  days  of  their  service  to  the  State,  shall  remember  with  kindly  feelings.    Yours  truly, 

V.  M.  SCROGGS, 
Wallace  J.  Davis. 
Publishers. 

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••^TATE^'OFFICERS  AND  SUPERINTENDENTS  OF  INSTITUTIONS. 


STATE  CAPITAL JEFFERSON   CITY. 

Governor Lon  V.Stephens Democrat 

Lieutenant-Governor August  H.  Bolte Democrat 

Secretary  of  State Alexander  A.  Lesueur Democrat 

State  Auditor James  M.  Seibert Democrat 

State  Treasurer Frank  L.  Pitts Democrat 

Attorney  -  General Edward  C.  Crow -. Democrat 

Superintendent  of  Public  Schools John  R.  Kirk ...,. Republican 

I  James  Cowgill ;;4Democrat 

Railroad  and  Wareliouse  Commissioners -  Joseph  Flory Republican 

(  Timothy  J.   Hennessey Democrat 

Adjutant-General         M.  Fred  Bell Democrat 

Warden  of  the  Penitentiary John  I).  Starke Democrat 

Commissioner  Labor.  Statistics  and  Inspection A.  Rozelle People's  Party 

State  Mine  Inspector  (coal) Charles  Evans Democrat 

State  Mine  Inspector  (lead  and  zinc) Geo.  E.  Quinby Democrat 

State  Geologist Charles  R.  Keys Democrat 

Commissioner  Permanent  Seat  Government Ashley  W.  Ewing Democrat 

State  Liijrarian Mrs.  Jennie  Edwards Democrat 

Clerk  Supreme  Court John  R.  Green Democrat 

Superintendent  of  the  Insurance  Department Ed.  T.  Orear Democrat 

Secretary  State  Board  of  Pharmacy F.  W.  Sennewald cor.  8th  and  Hickory.  St.  Louis 

Secretary  State  Board  of  Health Dr   Willis  P.  King 810  Harrison  St.,  Kansas  City 

Secretary  State  Board  of  Agriculture John  R.  Rippey      _ Columbia 

Secretary  State  Horticultural  Society L.  A.  Goodman Westport 

Secretary  State  Fish  Commission N.  B.  Crisp Independence 

President  State  University Richard  H.  Jesse Columbia 

President  Normal  School,  district  No.  1 W.  D.  Dobson Kirksville 

President  Normal  School,  district  No.  2 George  L.  Osborne Warrensburg 

President  Normal  School,  district  No.  3 Cape  Girardeau 

President  Normal  School.  Lincoln  Institute Inman  E.  Page ..Jefferson  City 

Superintendent  State  Lunatic  Asylum  No.  1 Dr.  J.  L  Warden Fulton 

Superiiiteiuli'nt  State  Lunatic  Asylum  No.  2.  Dr.  C  R.  Woodson St.  Joseph 

Superiiitt'iident  State  Lunatic  Asylum  No.  3 Dr.  Joseph  F.  Robinson Nevada 

Superintendent  Missouri  School  for  the  Blind Dr.  John  T.  Sibley St.   Louis 

Superintendent  Missouri    Institution    for    the    Education   of 

the  Deaf  and  Dumb J.  N.  Tate Fulton 

Superintendent  Missouri  Reform  School  for  Boys L.  D.  Drake Boonville 

Superintendent  State  Industrial  Home  for  Girls Miss  E.  M.  Gilbert Chillicothe 


UNITED  STATES  SENATORS. 


Francis  Marion  Cockrell 

Warrensburg. 

Kansas  City. 

MEMBERS  OF  FIFTY-FIFTH  CONGRESS. 

District. 

Name. 

POSTOFFICE. 

First   

Second 

Third 

Fourth 

Fifth 

Sixth 

Seventli  

Eighth 

Ninth  

Tenth 

Eleventh  ... 

Twelfth  

Thirteenth  . 
Fourteenth 
Fifteenth 


+Richard  P.  Giles.  D 

Robert  N.  Bodine.  D 

Alexander  M  Dockery,  D 

Charles  F-  Cohran.  n 

William  S.  Cowherd.  D  .... 
David  A.  DeArmond.  D  .. 

James  Cooney,  I) 

Kicliard    I'arks  Bland.  D.. 

Champ  Clark.   D 

Richard  Bartholdt,  R 

Charles  F.  Joy.  R 

Charles  E.  Pearce.  R 

Edward  Robb.  D 

Willard  D.  Vandiver,  D... 
Maecenas  E.  Benton.  D 


Shelbina 

Paris 

Gallatin   

St    Joseph 

Kansas  City 

Butler 

Marshall 

Lebanon  

Bowling  Green... 
St.  Louis 

Perryville 

Cape  Girardeau 
Neosho  


+  Deceased. 


STATE  SUPREME  COURT  JUDGES. 


Shepard  Barclay,  Chief  Justice 

James  B.  Gantt 

Thomas  A.   Sherwood.. 

George  B.  Macfarlane 


Gavon  D.  Burgess 

Waltour  M.  Robinson.. 
Theodore  Brace 


STATE  SENATE. 


Name. 


DiST.  I   Pol. 


POSTOFFICE. 


County. 


Occupation. 


Anderson.  Benjiimin  M 

Ballard.  Jasper  X  * 

Brewster.  Arthur  W  .*.. 

Burkhead.  Asbery 

Busche.  Charles  F.+ 

Childers.  .J.   Houston 

Davisson.  Samuel   P.* 

Drum.   Robert  + 

Goodykoontz.  Wm.  R.*... 

Gray.  Howard* 

Hohenschild,  Henry  H... 

Klene.  Ben.  J.* 

Lancastei".  Richard  D.*. 
Landrum.  Richard  H.*  .. 

Lyons.  AVm.  F 

McClintic.  AVm.  Shields  t 

Madison.  Robert  G.* 

Major.  Elliott  W 

Marshall.  John  E 

Martin.  Thomas  C.**' 

Matthews.   BuellL.-4: 

Miller.  Elijah* 

Morton.  John  F.* 

Mott.  Fred  W.+ 

O'Bannon,  James  P.* 

Orchard.  James* 

Peers.  Charles  E.* 

Powers.   Harvey  B.* 

Schweickardt.  Charles... 

Seaber.  Alfred  N.* 

Vandiver.  Charles  H 

"Wells.  William  C.$ 

Williams.  John  M.-    

Young,  OdusG 


9th 
16th 

3d 
19th 

33d 
15th 

4th 
21st 
34th 
2Hth 
37th 
34th 

33d 
18th 

7th 
13th 
36th 
11th 

33d 
30th 
3.5th 

1st 

8th 
39th 
30th 

33d 
10th 
13th 
31st 

6th 

17th 

3d 

14th 

5th 


Columbia 

Montrose 

St.  Joseph 

Ava  

St.  Louis  City.. 

Hermitage 

Cainsville  .  .  .   . 

Marble  Hill 

Caledonia .. 

Carthage  

Rolla 

St.  Louis  City. 
St.  Louis  City.. 
Mount  Vernon 


Kansas  City 'Jackson 


Boone 

Henry 

Buchanan 

Douglas 

2331  Benton  St 

Hickory 

Harrison 

Bollinger 

Washington  

Jasper 

Phelps 

4919  Foun.  Ave 

1113  N.  Com.  Ave. 
Lawrence  


Monroe  City  P.  O 

Festus  ..  ... 

Bowling  Green 

Blodgett 

St.  Louis  City.. 

Hermann 

Denver 

Richmond   

St.  Louis  City. 

Buffalo. 

West  Plains 

Warrenton   

Powersville 

St.  Louis  City. 

Kirksville  

Borland 

Platte  City 

California  

Kansas  City 


Marion 

Jefferson 

Pike 

Scott  

2331  S.  13th  St. 

Gasconade 

Worth 

Ray 

6639  Vir.  Ave. 

Dallas 

Howell  

Warren  

Putman 

634  Pine  St 

Adair  

Lafayette 

Platte  

Moniteau  

Jackson  


Merchant  &  real  estate  agt.. 

Banker  and  farmer 

Lawyer  

Lawyer  

Wholesale  baker 

Lawyer  

Merchant  and  farmer 

Merchant 

Physician 

Lawyer  . 

Architect 

Lawyer  

Real  estate  agent 

Lawyer  and  farmer 

Lawyer  — 

Farmer 

Farmer 

Lawj^er  

Farmer 

Hotel-keeper 

Lawyer 

Lawyer 

Lawyer 

Real  estate  agent 

Editor  and  publisher 

Lawyer 

Lawyer - 

Farmer 

Caterer 

Lawyer 

Farmer 

Banker 

Lawyer 

Lawyer . 


Democrats.  19;  Republicans.  15. 

*  Hold  over;  t  Re-elected;   *  Member  of  former  Legislatures;  t  To  fill  unexpired  term. 


HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES. 


Name.  Pot,itics  and  Occupation. 


AUdredge,  William  C..$  pop.,  farm 

Armstrong.  Hugli.  rep.,  ias.  agt 

Arnold,  Wilbur  F..  dem..  farmer 

Averill.  Joliii  T..  dem..  farmer 

Avery,  Omer  H..*  dem..  lawyer - 

Aydelott.  Samuel  T..$  rep..  larmer.. 
Barnett,  Orville  M..  dem..  lawyer  .. 
Baugher,  E.  C'..*  rep.,  far.  &  miller. 

Bittinger,  John  L..*  rep.,  editor 

Bohart.  J.  Ed.,  dem..  lawyer 

Bohling.  Cord.  dem..  physician 

Bradford.  T.  N..  dem..  farmer 

Bradley,  .James,  dem..  preacher 

Breit.  Peter  C*  rep.,  lawyer 

Breuer,  William,  rep.,  farmer 

Burks.  Sydnor  B..*  dem..  lawyer 

Burroughs.  .Toseph  N..  dem. .lawyer 

Caldwell.  .loliii  B..  dem..  farmer 

C'ashioii.  Aicli.  H..  rep.,  capitalist... 

Cliinn.  George  W..*  dem..  farmer 

C'liristy,  Joseph  H..  dem.,  farmer 

Clarke,  Charles  W..  rep.,  lawyer 

Clymer.  Harry,  rep.,  lawyer 

Cock.  William  H..  t  dem..  merchant 

Cotfey.  Matthew,  dem..  farmer 

Cole.  Carey  W.,  dem..  farmer 

Collier,  W.  F..  t  dem..  physician 

Collins.  George  T..  $  dem.,  lawyer... 
Cowley.  Geo  B.,  rep.,  phy.  and  ed'r.. 

Cox.  William  I..*  dem..   farmer 

Cox,  John  M..  dem..  farmer 

Crisp.  John  T..*  dem..  farmer 

Curry.  George  R.,  rep.,  farmer 

Daugherty,  .1.  A.,  dem..  farmer 

Davault,  Alfred,  t  dem..  farmer 


POSTOFFICE    AND  COUNTY. 


Latham.  Moniteau 

Kirlvwood.  St.  Louis 

Bonne  Terre.  St.  Francois. 

Gayoso,  Pemiscot 

Troy.  Lincoln 

Truxton,  Warren 

Sedalia.  Pettis 

Rich  woods.   Washington... 

St.  Josepli.  Buclianan 

Plattsl)urg.  Clinton 

Pyrmont.  Morgan 

Houston.  Texas 

Mexico.  Audrain 

Savannah.  Andrew 

Red  Bird.  Gasconade... 

Slater.   Saline 

West  Plains.  Howell 

St.  Mary's.  Ste.  Genevieve 

Perry ville.  Perry 

Clarence.   Shelby 

Odessa.  Lafayette 

Kansas  City.  Jackson 

Steel  ville.  Crawford 

Clinton.  Henry 

Downmg.  Schuyler 

West  Hartford.  Ralls 

Birch  Tree.  Shannon 

Memphis.  Scotland 

Cowgill.  Caldwell. 

Monticello,  Lewis 

Jeflf.  Oregon 

Independence.  Jackson 

Dillia.  Ozark 

Webb  City.  Jasper 

New  Florence,  Montgomery 


Name.  Politics  and  Occupation. 


Davidson.  Simeon,  dem..  farmer 

Davis.  James  W..  dem..  lawyer 

Davis.  Wallace  J.,  dem..  editor 

Denslow.  William  M..*  rep.,  editor. 

Dorsett.  .T.  H..  dem..  farmer 

Dougherty.  Chas.  A..  $  dem. .farmer 

Dunn.  Edward  J.,  rep.,  ins.  agt 

Dyer.  Ford  N..  dem.  &  pop..teaclier 

Ehrhart.  Charles,  rep.,  cooper 

Ellis.  George  B..  dem..  farmer 

Ellis.  J.  D..  dem..  farmer 

Ellis.  Paul.  rep.,  mercliant 

Erman,  Henry  C.  rep.,  min'g  eng'r 
Farrar.  George  W..  jr..  dem..  phy  .. 
Farris.  John  W..  $  dem..  lawyer  .  .. 

Feaster.  T.  ,1..  dem..   physician 

Fitzgerald.  David  F..  dem..  farmer 
Frost.  W^  B..  dem.  &  pop.,  farmer  .. 

Hale.  WMlliam  R..  pop.,  farmer 

Hall.  Matthew  W..*  dem..  farmer  . 
Hamilton.  William  M..  dem. .farmer 

Harrel.  .loim  M..*dem..  farmer 

Hart.  George  A.,  rep.,  grocer 

Hawkins.  Thomas  W..  dem..  lawyer 

Hays.  G.  Purd.  rep.,  lawyer 

Hendrickson, JesseL..pop..t'hr  &  far 
Hess.  Ferd  J..  *  dem..  farmer 
Hood.  Prichard  B..  dem.  &  pop..t'hr 
Hopkins.  James  M..  dem..  farmer 
Tjams,  Thomas  H..  rep.,  broker 


Jenkins.  M.  J.,  pop.,  far.  &  preacher 
Johnston.  W^illiam  F..  dem..  farmer 
Johnston.  Rowland  L..'  rep. .lawyer 
Jones.  B.  C  dem..  physician.. 
Koch.  Frank  H..  rep.,  caterer 


Postoffice  and  County. 


Sheridan.  Worth 

Brunswick.  Chariton 

Bowling  Green.  Pike 

Spickard.  Grundy 

Everett.  Cass ._ 

Meyers.  Howard 

St.  Louis  City.  4120  Evans  ave 

Amity.  DeKalb 

St.Louis  C\v.20i:5i4  DeKalb st 
Appleton  City  P.  O.,  Bates... 

Nevada.  Vernon 

Cedar  Gap.  Wright 

St.  Louis  C'y.3517  Laf ay'te  av 

Belleview.  Iron 

Lebanon.   Laclede 

Climax  Springs.  Camden 

Ford  City.  Gentry 

Newtonia.  Newton _ 

Norman.  Phelps 

Marshall.  Saline 

AVarrensburg.  Johnson 

Liberty.   Clay 

Warsaw.  B"iitoii 

Palmyra.  ^Slaiion 

Ozark.  Chrisliuii 

Buffalo.  Dallas 

Wolf  Island.  Mississippi 

Verona.   Barrj^ 

Magnet.  Atchison 

Kansas  City.  Jackson 

Carthage.  .Jasper 

Clark's  Fork.  Cooper 

Old  Orchard.  St.  Louis 

Poplar  Blulf.  Butler ..._ 

St.  Louis  City,  1400  Cass  ave.. 


HOUSE    OF    REPRESENTATIVES— Continued. 


Name,  Politics  and  Occupation, 


Kramme.  Philip,  rep.,  grocer 

I>ee,  Georee  T..  t  dem..  merchant.. 
Leeper.  Wadswortli  D..  dem.,lawy'r 
London,  George  M..  dem..  merchant 

McCann.  James,  rep.,  lawyer 

]Vlc(  'ollum.  Andrew  J..*  dem..lawy  r 
McKim.  Joseph  M..  dem.. physician 
McMonigle.  James  M.. dem. .teacher 
McPherson.Wm.  J.,  rep.,  house  dec'r 

Macey,  Robert  L.,  dem.,  editor 

Martin.  Thos.  W..  dem..  lawyer 
Martin.  Edmund  W..  dem..  farmer 
Mashburn.Jas.  H..dem..mer't&  far 
Meyersieck.Wm.  M..  rep.,  farmer 

Miller.  John  F..  t  dem..  farmer 

Moeller,  Ernst  W..  rep..manufact'r 

Morris.  John.  dem..  farmer 

Mueller.  Rudolph  W..*  rep.,  farmer 
Myers.  George  B..  dem.,  t'hr  &  far 

iVeville,  Harvey  E..  rep.,  lawyer 

O'Bannon.  Virgil  A.,  dem..   sawm'r 
O'Dell.  Joseph  C*  dem..  farmer 
O'Fallon.  Samuel  F..  rep.,  lawyer 

Organ,  John  E..  $  dem..  editor 

Perrin  .1.  H.  dem..  physician 

Pickler.  Sam'l  M..  t  rep.,  bus.  &  far'g 
Piner.  Jos.  A..  dem.,ret'd  bus.  man 
Piper,  Jas.  M..  rep.,  R.  R.  promoter 

Pope.  Winfield  S..?  dem..  lawyer 

Porter.  John  A.,  rep.,  lawyer 

Prather.  Alonzo  S..  $  rep.,  farmer... 

Pyeatt  George  Y..  dem..  farmer 

Rebo,  Francis  A.  S..  dem..  lawyer.. 
Regan.  Patrick  J.,  rep. .book-keeper 
Reynolds.  Z.  T.,  rep.,  far.  &  teacher 


POSTOFFICE   and   COUNTY. 


St.  Louis  City,  2766  Chou.  ave 

Van  Buren,   Carter 

Chillicothe.   Livingston 

Twelve  Mile.  Madison 

Bosworth.  Carroll 

Doniphan,  Ripley 

Newark.  Knox 

Linkville.  Platte 

St.  Louis  City,  931  Man.  ave. 

Hardin,  Ray 

Lamar.  Barton 

Auxvasse.  Callaway 

Humansville.  Polk 

Union,  Franklin 

Conklin.  Webster 

St.  Louis  City,  2226  Locust  . 

Owasco,  Sullivan 

Augusta.  St.  C'harles 

Lutesville.  Bollinger 

Tuscumbia.  Miller 

Lowndes.   Wayne 

Leeper,  Reynolds    

Oregon.  Holt 

Salem.  Dent 

Marceline.  Linn 

KirksvilU".  Adair 

St.  Josepli.  Buchanan 

St.  Louis  City.lolO  Wash,  ave 

Jcffei-son  City.   Cole 

St.  Louis  City,  2618  Lo<Just... 

Taney  vi lie.  Taney 

Ohio.  St.  Clair 

Kahoka,  Clark 

St.  Louis  City,1418  Mont,  ave 
Carr,  Stone 


Name,  Politics  and  Occupation. 


Roiine,  Charles  H..*  rep.,  grocer 

Ross.  James  H..*  dem.,  farmer 

Ruby.  Web.  M..  $  dem..  lawyer 

Russell.  D.  L.,*  dem..  far.  &  mcht 
Russell. Wm.  R.,dem.  &  pop.,  prch'r 
Rutledge.W.  J..dem.&  pop..phy.«&  f 

Sawyer.  John  J.,*  rep.,  farmer 

Schumacher,  Fd'k  W.,*  rep.,  grocer 
Sessinghaus.  Oscar  F.,  rep.,  lawyer 
Sliewmaker.  James  P..  dem..  farmer 

Sickles.  Frank  C.,  rep.,  lawyer 

Slate.  John  G.,  dem..  lawyer  &  pub. 

Smith.  Charles  A.,  rep.,  lawyer 

Snidow.  W.  L..  1:  rep.,  farmer 

Spotford.  Thomas  M..  dem..  lawyer 
Sweaney.  John  W..  dem  &  pop.,  far 
Tandy,  J.  F..  dem.  &  pop.,  preacher 

Taylor,  Jesse  H.,  rep.,  merchant 

Thomas.  Wm.  H.,  dem.  &  pop.,  far 

Tribble,  J.  P.,  dem.,  lawyer  

Truitt.  William  H..  Jr..  dem. .lawyer 

Tubbs,  Alonzo.*  rep.,  physician 

VanDerhoef,  Rotat.  C.  rep. .teacher 
Vandiveer,  James  E..  dem.,  fai-nici' 
Wade,  T.  W..  dem.  &pop..  merchant 
Walmsley.  H.  R..  rep..underwrite)'.. 

Ward.  W.  J..  $  dem..  farmer 

Weaver,  W.  M..  dem..  lawyer 

Whitecotton.. James  H.. dem. .lawyer 
Wight,  Wm  A.,  dem..  ret'd  bus.  man 
Williams,  Charles,  dem. .physician.. 

Williams.  Lon  B..  dem..   farmer 

Wilson.  Goldburn  H..  rep.,  phy 

W(kk1.  .Joseph,  dem..  farmer 

Woods.  Leonidas  B.. rep. .far.  &  tch'r 


POSTOFFlCE    AND   COUNTY. 


St. Louis  City.  4152  Ash.  ave.. 

Big  l^iney.  Pulaski 

Macon,  !^la<•on 

New  Miidjid.  New  Madrid... 

Everton.   Dade 

Freistatt.  Lawrence 

Fruitland.  C.Girardeau 

St.  Louis  City.  2000  S.  12th  St.. 
St.  Louis  City,  2401  N.  13th  St.. 

Gower  P.  O..  Buchanan 

Unionville.  Putnam 

Vienna,  Maries 

St.  Louis  ( "ity.  28.52  Mag.  ave 

Weaubleau.  Hickory 

Ivansas  City.  Jackson 

Red  Bridge.  Jackson 

Tiff  City,  McDonald 

Martinsville.  Harrison 

Willow  Spgs.P  O..  Douglas.. 

Kennett,  Dunklin 

Columbia.   Boone . . 

Feuersville.  Osage 

Maryville.  Nodaway 

Montcvallo  P.  O..  Cedar 

Kepublic,  Greene 

Ivansas  City.  .Jackson 

Idalia.  Stoddard 

Springflcld.  Greene 

I*aris.  Monroe 

Moberly.  Randolph 

House  Springs,  Jeft'erson 

Morley,  Scott 

St.  Louis  City.  3613  N.  10th  St 

Bancroft.  Daviess 

Princeton,  Mercer 


Democrats,  79;  Republicans,  47;  People's  Party,  5;  Democrats  and  People's  Party,  9. 
*Re-elected.    ^Members  of  former  Legislatures. 


GOVERNOR  OF  MISSOURI. 


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ON  V.  STEPHENS.  Chief  Executive  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  was  born  in  Boon- 
ville.  Cooper  county.  Mo.,  December  21. 1858,  and  up  to  March  12,  1890.  always 
resided  in  his  native  town;  was  educated  in  the  Kemper  Family  School.  Boon- 
ville,  and  Washington  and  Lee  University,  Lexington,  Va.  His  father  Colonel  J.  L. 
f  Stephens,  was  a  man  of  wealth,  and  many  years  ago  established  the  Central  National 
Bank  of  Boonville.  one  of  the  few  banks  in  the  West  which  kept  its  doors  wide  open 
all  through  the  panic  of  1871.  Governor  Stephens,  when  a  very  young  man,  served 
as  telegraph  operator,  printer  and  editor;  also  as  messenger,  bookkeeper,  cashier 
and  director  of  the  Central  National  Bank.  In  1887  he  was  appointed  receiver  of  the 
Fifth  National  Bank  of  St.  Louis  by  Mr.  Trenholm.  Controller  of  the  Currency,  and 
its  affairs  were  wound  up  in  such  a  successful  manner  as  to  enable  the  depositors  to 
receive  96  cents  on  the  dollar  out  of  what  seemed  to  be  almost  a  hopeless  wreck. 
From  this  one  case  alone  Lon  Stephens  made  a  reputation  as  a  financier  that  was 
favorably  commented  on  all  over  the  country.  On  Mai'ch  13, 1890.  he  was  appointed 
State  Treasurer  by  Governor  David  R.  Francis  to  fill  out  the  unexpired  term  of  Ed. 
T.  Noland.  and  in  this  case  the  affairs  of  the  State  Treasury  were  straightened  out 
in  such  a  satisfactory  manner  that  the  people  of  the  State  saw  in  Lon  V.  Stephens 
the  proper  man  to  fill  that  important  office  for  the  next  four  years,  and  the  Demo- 
cratic State  convention  nominated  him  for  State  Treasurer  in  1892,  and  he  was 
elected  by  a  plurality  of  39,797.  When  the  time  came  for  the  Democratic  party  to 
select  a  man  that  would  lead  them  to  victory  in  1896  they  all  pointed  to  Lon  V. 
Stephens  as  the  proper  person,  andwhen  the  Democratic  State  Convention  convened  at  Jefferson  City  in  189(5  he  was  nominated 
for  Governor  by  acclamation,  and  was  elected  by  a  plurality  of  M.OOO.  For  five  years  previous  to  his  appointment  as  State 
Treasurer  he  and  his  brother.  Speed  Stephens,  managed  the  finances  of  Cooper  and  Morgan  counties,  both  of  which  counties  liad 
large  debts,  and  brought  them  safely  and  satisfactorily  out  from  beneath  their  heavy  burdens.  Although  a  banker  from  child- 
hood, he  has  been  for  years  one  of  the  most  earnest  workers  for  the  free  silver  cause.  Governor  Stephens  was  married  October 
5. 1S80.  to  Miss  Maggie  Nelson,  of  Boonville,  daughter  of  Hon.  Jas.  M.  Nelson,  and  their  married  life  has  l)een  a  happy  one.  They 
have  no  cliildren.  Mrs.  Stephens  is  the  most  charming  lady  and  devoted  wife  that  ever  presided  at  the  Executive  Mansion. 
They  are  lK)th  devoted  members  of  the  Methodist  Church,  and  every  Sunday  morning  they  can  be  found  at  that  church. 
During  the  time  which  Governor  and  Mrs.  Stephens  have  resided  in  Jefferson  City  they  have  made  many  warm  personal  friends. 
and  tlieir  many  receptions  at  "Ivy  Terrace"  will  long  be  remembered  by  the  people  from  all  parts  of  the  State.  During  the  Gov- 
ernor's public  life  he  has  demonstrated  the  fact  that  he  is  the  right  man  in  the  right  place,  and  the  indications  are  that  he  will 
make  Missouri  one  of  the  best  Governors  she  has  ever  had. 


GOVERNOR'S  PRIVATE  SECRETARY. 


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'HE  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  handsome  and  gallant   Paul  B.  Moore, 
Private  Secretary  to^Governor  Stephens.     Mr.   Moore  was  born  Octo- 
ber 26,  1867,  at  Charleston,  Missouri;  afterward  he  removed  with  his  parents 
to  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and  there  grew  to  manhood.     He  was  educated  in 
the  schools  of  Nashville  and  then  completed  his  course  at  Vanderbilt  Uni- 
versity, graduating  from  the  literary  and  law  departments.     He  travelled 
abroad  for  a  period  of  sixteen  months,  and  is  one  of  the  most  polished  and 
cultured  young  men  in  the  State.     He  is  a  stanch  Democrat  and  an  active 
party  worker;  he  represented  Mississippi  county  in  the  Thirty-seventh  and 
Thirty-eighth  General  Assemblies,  and  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Criminal  Jurisprudence  he  proved  himself  to  be  a  very  influential  and  valu- 
able member.     He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Margaret  B.  Stephens  of  Boonville,  the  popular  and  accomplished 
sister  of  Governor  Stephens.     Mr.  Moore  was  appointed  Lieutenant  Colonel  on  Governor  Stone's  staff"  and  served 
with  dignity  and  military  bearing  in  that  capacity. 

With  a  polished  education  and  training  which  fits  him  for  any  social  circle,  with  a  clean  party  record  and  a  host 
of  warm  friends  who  wish  him  well,  there  are  few  young  men  in  the  State  who  have  a  more  brilliant  future  than 
Col.  Paul  B.  Moore. 


LIEUTENANT-  GO  VERNOR. 


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UGUST  H.  BOLTE,  Lieutenant-Governor,  was  elected  by  the  Demo- 
crats of  the  State  in  the  fall  of  1896,  to  preside  over  the  Senate  for 
four  years,  and  perform  such  other  duties  as  prescribed  by  law  for  this  high 
and  responsible  position  during  his  term  of  oflBce;  he  is  a  native  of  Missouri, 
having  been  born  and  reared  in  Franklin  county;  was  educated  at  paro- 
chial schools  of  Franklin  county;  private  high  school,  St.  Louis;  Northwest- 
ern University,  Watertown,  Wis.,  and  law  school  of  Missouri  State  University; 
has  practiced  law  since  1875  and  has  a  good  law  practice  in  southwest  Mis- 
souri; was  elected  Judge  of  the  Probate  Court  of  Franklin  county,  November, 
1880,  and  re-elected  in  1882,  1886  and  1890;  elected  Prosecuting  Attorney  of 
the  county  in  1894.  Franklin  county  is  one  of  the  Republican  strongholds 
and  a  Democrat  to  be  elected  to  office  in  that  county  must  be  a  man  of 
unquestioned  integrity  and  ability  and  a  man  popular  with  the  masses.  In 
1882  he  married  Miss  Christina  K.  Arand  of  Union,  Mo.,  and  they  have  a 
family  of  three  girls.  As  presiding  oflScer  of  the  Senate,  Gov.  Bolte  has  been  attentive,  patient,  impartial  and  fear- 
less, and  no  man  ever  yielded  the  gavel  in  the  Senate  Chamber  of  the  State  of  Missouri  who  was  more  deeply  inter- 
ested in  the  affairs  of  that  body  than  the  present  Lieutenant-Governor,  and  if  the  time  ever  comes  when  either  Gov. 
Stephens  or  the  people  of  the  State  call  on  Lieutenant-Governor  Bolte  to  preside  as  the  Chief  Executive  of  the  State, 
no  one  doubts  but  what  he  will  perform  the  duties  of  that  oflSce  as  he  has  the  duties  of  presiding  officer  of  the  Senate — 
with  dignity  and  dispatch.  Gov.  Bolte  is  a  highly  polished  gentleman  and  no  man  ever  served  as  Lieutenant-Gover- 
nor who  was  more  universally  liked  and  admired  by  the  residents  of  the  Capital  and  the  prominent  men  of  the  State 
than  Governor  Bolte. 


SECRETARY  OF  STATE. 


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LEXANDER  A.  LESUEUR,  Secretary  of  State,  who  is  now  serving  his 
third  term  in  that  important  office,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  No- 
vember 25,  1842;  educated  at  St.  Louis  University;  private  in  Capt.  Geo.  W. 
West's  company,  Frost's  Brigade,  in  Southwest  expedition  i860;  left  St. 
Louis  May  8,  1861,  as  private  in  Capt.  Joe  Kelly's  company  of  infantry;  pro- 
moted to  Sereeant-Major  of  Battalion;  at  Cassville  organized  artillery  com- 
pany; Captain  commanding  Third  Missouri  field  battery.  Parsons'  Division, 
C.  S.  A.;  settled  in  Lafayette  county  August,  1865;  first  Chairman  Demo- 
cratic County  Committee  of  Lafayette  county  after  the  war,  and  for  a  number 
of  years  thereafter;  editor  Le;xington  Intelligencer  ;  member  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives Thirtieth  General  Assembly  ;  Chairman  Penitentiary  Committee 
and  author  of  the  penitentiary  law,  R.  S.  1879;  President  Missouri  Press 
Association,  1882  ;  nominated  bj'^  Democratic  Convention  of  August,  1888, 
on  first  ballot,  for  Secretary  of  State,  and  elected  ;  renominated  without 
opposition  in  189:2,  and  duly  elected  ;  also  in  1896,  and  elected  by  a  plurality 
of  39i788.  Capt.Lesueur  is  by  far  the  most  capable  man  that  ever  filled  the 
important  office  of  Secretary  of  State;  and  the  people  could  not  find  a  more  deserving  man  and  one  who  worked 
harder  for  the  party's  interests  than  he  has  done.  He  was  married  January  8,  186S,  to  Miss  Florence  Estill,  daugh- 
ter of  William  King  Trigg.  He  has  an  interesting  family  of  two  boys  and  six  girls,  and  they  have  a  delightful  home 
just  opposite  the  Capitol,  in  which  the  members  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  have  passed  many  pleasant 
hours  during  the  past  winter. 


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His  family  consists  of  his  wife   ( 
domestic  in  his  habits  and  tastes, 


STATE  AUDITOR. 


AMES    M.    SEIBERT,  the  present  able    and    popular  State  Auditor, 
was  born  in  Perry  county,  Missouri,  February  3,  1847,  and  received 
his  education  at  the  public  schools  of  that  county,  and  was  afterward  a 
student  for  a  time  at  McKindree  College,   Illinois.     In    1866  he  moved  to 
Cape  Girardeau  county  and  engaged  in  fanning  and  mercantile  pursuits. 
He  was  elected  Sheriff  and  Collector  several  times  ;  was  elected  State  Treas- 
urer in  1884,  and  State  Auditor  in  1888,  1892  and  1896.     He  enjoys  the  repu- 
tation of  being  one  of  the  ablest  and  most  efficient  officers  Missouri  has  ever 
had.     He  has  the  patience  and  industry  to  go  to  the  bottom  and  thoroughly 
master  the  minutest  details  of  every  matter  that  comes  before  him  officially, 
and  the  backbone  to  do  his  whole  duty  without  regard   to  consequences, 
with  the  result  that  he  has  won  the  confidence  and  admiration  of  friends  and 
foes.     He  was  prominently  mentioned  as  a  candidate  for  Governor  in  1896. 
nee  Miss  Emma  "Wilson  of  Perry  county),  and  two  grown  daughters.     He  is  very 
and  is  never  so  happy  as  when  at  home  with  his  wife  and  children. 


STATE  TREASURER. 


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ISSOURI  has  many  gallant  Democrats — in  fact  Democrats  are  nearly 
all  gallant  men,  but  in  all  the  State  there  is  not  a  grander  gentleman 
than  Captain  Frank  L.  Pitts,  our  newly  elected  State  Treasurer. 
Captain  Pitts  is  fifty-five  years  old  and  was  born  in  Shelby  county,  Missouri, 
and  passed  his  younger  days  in  this  and  Marion  county.  His  early  occupa 
tion  was  that  of  a  mechanic.  However,  for  a  great  number  of  years  he  has 
been  a  public  man.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  public  schools  and 
afterward  completed  his  course  in  the  High  School  of  Hannibal.  He  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Laura  F.  Boulware,  of  Paris,  Mo.,  and  has  a 
bright  little  daughter,  Kitty,  who  is  an  accomplished  little  lady.  Mr.  Pitts 
has  lived  in  Monroe  county  for  quite  a  number  of  years,  and  has  held  a 
number  of  oflSces  in  that  county,  being  elected  Sheriff  for  four  years  and 
Collector  for  ten  years.  He  is  at  present  serving  as  State  Treasurer,  and 
the  people  of  Missouri  could  not  have  a  more  faithful  officer  in  that  responsible  position,  or  one  who  would  fill  it 
with  more  efficiency.  When  the  dark  clouds  of  war  began  settling  over  a  nation  which  had  hitherto  known  aught 
but  fraternal  peace,  Captain  Pitts  enlisted  in  the  Southern  soldier's  cause  and  left  his  right  arm  to  molder  upon  the 
battlefield  at  Franklin,  Tenn.  He  served  in  all  four  years  in  Cockrell's  brigade  of  the  Second  Missouri  Infantry. 
He  followed  the  flag  of  Lee  because  a  conscience  told  him  it  was  his  duty,  and  no  nobler  or  more  patriotic  soldier 
ever  wore  the  "uniform  of  gray."  Captain  Pitts  is  the  favorite  of  no  faction  of  this  State's  Democracy — Missouri's 
entire  Democracy  loves  him  because  he  is  a  patriot  and  a  man.  He  is  always  in  a  jovial  mood  and  has  unkind  words 
for  no  one — not  even  those  with  whom  he  has  contested  for  political  honors.  There  is  no  grander  compliment,  as 
some  ancient  philosopher  has  said,  than  to  be  called  a  tnan — and  of  no  public  official  in  the  State  can  this  be  said 
more  truly  than  of  Captain  Pitts. 


A  TTORNE  Y- GENERAL, 


EDWARD  C.  CROW,  the  newly  elected  Attorney-General  of  this  State, 
is  a  native  Missourian ,  having  been  born  in  Holt  county,  December 
19,  1861.     Mr.  Crow  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Carthage,  Mo.,  having 
graduated  from  its  High   School;  afterward   he  attended  the  St.  Louis  Law 
School,  and  graduated  therefrom  in    1880.     After  having  thoroughly  quali- 
fied himself  in  his  chosen   profession  he  began  practice  in  Jasper  county, 
and  was  appointed  in  December,   1892,   City  Attorney  of  Webb  City.     In 
December  of  '94  he  was  appointed  Judge  of  the  Twenty-fifth  Circuit  by  Gov- 
ernor Stone  to  succeed  Judge  Robinson,  who  had  been  elected  to  the  Su- 
preme Bench  of  the  State.     In  this  capacity  he  served  until  1896,  and  then 
became  a  candidate  for  Attorney-General;  ^he  was  successful  in  that  some- 
what memorable  convention,  and  will  fill  the  office  for  the  next  four  years. 
Mr.  Crow  was  not  known  in  a  great  many  parts  of  the  State,  and  therefore 
he  came  to  the  people  as  a  comparatively  new  man.     However,  Mr.  Crow  is  beyond  question  one  of  the  most  brilliant 
young  lawyers  in  the  State,  and  if  his  official  career  does  not  prove  a  success  it  will  not  be  because  of  a  lack  of  abil- 
ity on  his  part. 

No  man  ever  made  a  more  brilliant  campaign  in  Missouri  than  did  the  wir5--looking  barrister  from  Jasper.  Al. 
though  homely  as  a  Lincoln  in  appearance,  he  has  the  oratory  and  brilliancy  of  a  Clay,  and  wherever  he  went  he  was 
greeted  with  enthusiasm  and  applause. 


SUPERINTENDENT  OF  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 


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OHN  R.  KIRK,  who  became  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools  of 
Missouri  in  1895,  was  born  in  Bureau  county,  Illinois,  January  23, 
1851.  He  came  with  his  parents  to  Missouri  in  1856;  was  reared  on  a  farm 
and  attended  the  public  schools  and  became  a  teacher;  after  graduating  from 
the  State  Normal  School  at  Kirksville,  Mo.,  took  a  private  course  under 
specialists  in  Latin,  Greek,  Science  and  Mathematics,  was  County  School 
Commissioner  of  Harrison  county.  Mo.,  after  which  he  served  as  Principal 
of  the  public  schools  of  Moultou,  Iowa;  after  serving  eight  years  as  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Bethany  (Mo.)  public  schools  he  accepted  the  Chair  of  Mathe- 
matics in  the  High  School  of  Kansas  City,  which  he  filled  acceptably  until 
he  was  elected  Superintendent  of  the  Public  Schools  of  Westport,  Mo. 

Prof.  Kirk  has  always  been  a  Republican,  but  not  an  offensive  partisan. 
His  party  honored  him  with  the  nomination  for  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Schools  the  summer  of  '94,  and  after  making  a  vigorous  campaign  was  elected  by  a  majority  of  3,6,37  over 
one  of  the  most  popular  Democratic  educators  of  the  State.  The  educational  interests  of  the  State  have  not  suffered 
under  the  superintendency  of  Prof.  Kirk,  but  have  flourished.  His  chief  purpose  as  State  Superintendent  is  to  make 
the  county  schools  of  the  State  as  efficient  as  any  other  schools,  and  to  provide  for  the  articulation  of  all  public  schools 
of  the  State,  from  the  smallest  district  school  to  the  University  at  Columbia.  He  is  married  and  has  six  children — 
three  girls  and  three  boys,  the  oldest  of  whom  is  attending  the  Law  School  at  Columbia. 


RAILROAD   COMMISSIONER    COWGILL. 


THIS  cut  is  the  likeness  of  Judge  James  Cowgill,  the  big-hearted,  big- 
fisted  Railroad  Commissioner  of  Missouri.  He  v/as  born  April  2, 
1848,  in  the  State  of  Indiana,  and  came  to  this  State  in  1868,  settling  in 
Caldwell  county.  Mr.  Cowgill  is  a  man  of  very  genteel  bearing  and  of  su- 
perior education,  and  is  by  no  means  an  amateur  in  politics.  He  has  been 
the  Presiding  Judge  in  Caldwell  county,  and  was  elected  to  the  Thirty-sixth 
General  Assembly,  notwithstanding  the  county  was  strongly  Republican. 
In  1892  he  was  nominated  by  the  Democratic  State  Convention  for  Railroad 
and  Warehouse  Commissioner,  and  is  at  the  present  time  serving  in  that 
capacity.  At  the  age  of  sixteen,  October  4,  1864,  he  enlisted  in  the  Ninth 
Indiana  Infantry  and  served  one  year.  He  owns  an  excellent  farm  in  Cald- 
well county,  one  in  I^afayette  and  one  in  Livingston  county,  but  resides  in  Kansas  City  at  present.  The  fact  that  he 
is  extremely  popular  among  the  people  of  his  home  is  attested  by  the  fact  that  he  has  repeatedly  been  elected  to 
office  when  Republican  majorities  stood  against  him.  He  is  a  Democrat  of  the  Kentucky  Colonel  style — in  fact  he  is 
a  thoroughbred.  There  is  no  man  who  has  more  warm-hearted  friends  in  the  State  than  Judge  Cowgill;  the  man 
who  has  once  felt  the  cordial  pressure  of  his  great  big  manlj'  hand  becomes  his  admirer  at  once.  If  all  Democratic 
leaders  were  of  his  dauntless  character  and  unselfishness,  the  great  Democratic  party  of  this  State  would  less  often  be 
threatened  by  a  yawning  gulf  of  disintegration.  The  most  that  can  be  said  is  that  "Jim  "  Cowgill  is  a  gentleman 
and  a  Democrat  who  knows  nothing  of  political  sandbagism  and  skull-duggery, 

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RAILROAD    COMMISSIONER   FLORY. 


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OSKPH    FLORY,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  one  of  the  Railroad  acd 
Warehouse  Commissioners  of  Missouri.     He  is  a  native  of  Indiana,  in 
which  State  he  was  born  in  1856;  he  left  the  State  of  his  birth  in  1882,  com- 
ing to  Missouri,  and  has  moved  among  its  generous  people  ever  since.     He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  State,  but  is  a  man  of  wide 
general  information.     From  young  manhood's  days  he  formed  a  liking  for 
railroads  and  railroad  work,  and  this  has  been  the  principal  following  of  his 
life;  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  service  of  the  "Wabash  since  J 873;  was  freight 
brakeman  from  1873  to  1876,  when  he  was  promoted  to  the  responsible  posi- 
tion of  freight  conductor,   and  served  in  that  capacity  until  1883,  when  he 
was  again  promoted  to  passenger  conductor  from  St.  Louis  to  Kansas  City, 
and  served  as  such  until  he  was  elected  Railroad  and  "Warehouse  Commis- 
sioner in  1894.     In  politics  he  has  always  been  an  ardent  Republican  and  an 
able  defender  of  its  principles.     In  1894  his  party  nominated  him  for  the  office  of  Railroad  and  Warehouse  Commis- 
sioner and  he  was  duly  elected;  his  plurality  was  6,337,  having  run  ahead  of  his  ticket  3,243  votes. 

Personally  Mr.  Flory  is  a  man  who  mixes  freely  among  men,  and  numbers  his  friends  by  the  hundreds.  It  was 
this  universal  popularity  which  caused  his  party  to  present  him  with  the  nomination,  and  he  has  proven  himself 
worthy  of  the  honor  which  it  conferred  upon  him.  Everybody  knows  "Joe  Flory."  He  is  a  good,  all  around  fellow 
and  a  thoroughly  able  and  competent  public  official. 


RAILROAD  COMMISSIONER  HENNESSY. 


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IMOTHY  J.  HENNESSY,  the  subject  of  this  brief  biography  is  one  of  the 


December,  1840,  and  came  to  America  in  1854,  and  has,  the  greater  part  of  his 
time,  resided  in  the  States  of  Illinois  and  Missouri.  His  first  oflScial  service  was 
as  Boiler  Inspector  of  the  Washington  Iron  Works  at  Newberg,  New  York, 
from  1857  to  1862  he  was  fireman  and  engineer  on  the  Ohio  &  Mississippi 
R.  R.,  and  in  '63  and  '64  built  gun-boats  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis;  for  three  years 
he  was  engaged  in  rebuilding  locomotives  in  the  machine  shops  at  St.  Charles;  he 
was  also  an  engineer  on  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad.  He  joined  the  Brother- 
hood of  Locomotive  Engineers  in  1869,  Arthur  Division  at  Moberly,  Mo.,  and 
has  since  retained  his  membership  in  that  organization,  A  remarkable  fact  in 
his  extensive  career  is  the  fact  that  he  never  took  part  in  any  strike,  and  never 

injured  an  employe.     In  1 888  he  was  elected  Railroad  and  Warehouse  Commissioner  for  a  term  of  six  years,  and 

again  elected  to  the  same  position  in  November,  1896. 

Mr.   Hennessy  is  a  man  who  is  very  popular  among  railroad  men  and  holds  a  high  place  in  the  ranks  of  the 

Democratic  party  of  Missouri.     He  is  a  man  who  understands  the  duties  of  his  office  thoroughly  and  is  in  every  way 

competent  to  fill  his  important  position — the  right  man  in  the  right  place. 

Everybody  who  knows  "Tim  Hennessy"  is  his  warm  hearted  friend.     The  most  that  can  be  said  for  him  is,  that 

he  is  one  of  the  best  Irishmen  in  this  country. 


SECRETARY  BOARD  R.  R.  &  W.   COMMISSIONERS. 


THE  subject  of  this  sketch  is  James  Harding,  the  Secretary  of  the  Rail- 
road Commissioners  of  Missouri.     Mr.  Harding  is  sixty-seven  years  old 
and  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  and  left  that  State  in   1843;  since  that  time 
his  travels  have  been  somewhat  varied,  having  been  at  sea,  in  California  and 
absent  in  the  South  from  1861  to   1871.     He  was  educated  in  the  private 
schools  of  Massachusetts  and  afterward  completed  his  instruction  in  Phillips' 
Academy,  of  Exeter,  New  Hampshire;  was  married  to  Miss  Christine  Cordell, 
of  Virginia,  and  is  the  parent  of  eight  children.     Mr.  Harding  is  a  sturdy 
Democrat  and  an  able  defender  of  the  political   faith  of  his  party.     He  was 
Quartermaster  General  of  Missouri  from   1861   to  1862  ;  superintended  the 
construction  of  the  new  buildings,  etc.,  at  the  Penitentiary  in  1875-76,  and 
was  elected  Railroad  Commissioner  of  this  State  in  1876  and  served  in  this 
capacity  until  1889,  having  been  elected  for  a  period  of  two  terms  ;  he  also 
served  as  Commissioner  in  the  boundary  line  matter  between  this  State  and 
Iowa  in  1896.     Mr.   Harding  is  a  man  af  wide  experience  in  this  world's 
matters  and  has  an  unusual  knowledge  of  this  country.     He  is  observing  in  nature,  and  is  in  fact  a  walking  encyclo- 
paedia of  information.     His  long  and  varied  experience  qualifies  him  to  satisfactorily  discharge  the  duties  of  Secretary 
of  the  Railroad  Commissioners  of  Missouri.     He  served  two  months  as  Quartermaster  of  General  Sterling  Price's 
Division,  C.  S.  A.,  and  resigning  that  position,  was  appointed  a  Captain  of  artillery  in  the  Confederate  service,  and 
assigned  on  ordnance  duty  ;  served  in  Mississippi,   Alabama,  Georgia  and  South  Carolina ;  was  eighteen  months, 
1863-64,  at  Charleston,  S.  C.  ;  was  promoted  to  be  Major  in   1864  ;  paroled  at  Columbus,  Ga.,  in   1865  ;  removed  to 
Pensacola,  Fla.,  in  the  fall  of  1865  and  remained  there  until  February,  1871,  when  he  returned  to  Missouri. 


CHIEF  JUSTICE   BARCLAY. 


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*HE  accompanying  cut  is  a  likeness  of  Judge  Shepard  Barclay  of  the 
Supreme  Bench  of  Missouri.  Judge  Barclay  was  born  in  St.  Louis, 
November  3,  1847  ;  at  the  age  of  nineteen  he  was  graduated  at  the  St. 
Louis  University,  and  then  continued  his  studies  in  the  University  of 
Virginia,  under  John  B.  Minor,  one  of  the  ablest  instructors  in  law 
of  his  time.  He  received  his  degree  in  law  in  1869.  Afterward  he  visited 
Europe  and  for  two  years  devoted  himself  to  the  study  of  German  and  French, 
and  of  the  civil  law,  which  he  pursued  at  the  University  of  Berlin,  under  the 
guidance  of  Drs.  Gneist  and  Bruns,  professors  there.  On  his  return  to  Mis- 
souri he  was  for  some  time  professionally  connected  with  the  press  in  St. 
Louis,  as  an  editorial  writer  on  the  Dispatch^  during  the  early  part  of  his 
practice  as  a  lawyer,  which  began  in  1872.  He  soon  established  a  wide  repu- 
tation, becoming  known  especially  for  his  thoroughness  and  ability  to  pre- 
pare briefs.  In  1882  he  was  elected  Circuit  Judge  in  St.  Louis  by  a  majority 
of  5,040,  at  a  time  when  several  candidates  of  tke  opposing  party  were  also 
elected.  In  1888  he  was  elected  to  the  Supreme  Bench  for  a  term  of  ten 
years,  and  is  at  present  the  Chief  Justice  of  the  Court.  Prominent  in  his  judi- 
cial work  is  the  writing  of  the  dissenting  opinion  in  the  case  of  the  State  vs. 
Loomis,  115  Missouri  307,  as  to  the  constitutional  powers  of  the  Legislature  to  suppress  the  "  truck  store"  system. 
He  also  wrote  the  opinion  of  the  majority  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  Dixon  vs.  Railroad,  109  Missouri,  413,  concerning 
the  law  of  fellow  servants.  Judge  Barclay  is  distinctly  in  his  sphere  as  a  member  of  the  Supreme  Bench  ;  there  is 
no  man  in  the  State  better  versed  in  the  law,  and  no  man  who  has  a  better  legal  equilibrium,  and  who  can  more 
calmly  or  fairly  render  a  decision  upon  the  great  problems  which  come  before  that  august  and  honorable  body,  of 
which  he  is  a  member.  He  is  a  man  not  swayed  by  passions  or  sentiment.  He  has  a  wonderfully  strong  individu- 
ality and  a  will  that  bends  before  nothing.  He  is  an  honor  to  the  high  and  responsible  office  with  which  the  people 
of  the  great  commonwealth  of  Missouri  have  entrusted  him. 


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JUDGE  BRACE, 


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UDGE  THEODORE  BRACE  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Ryana  Glades,  five 
miles  from  Oakland,  Md.,  on  June  lo,  1835  ;  was  educated  in  the  city 
of  Cumberland,  in  that  State  ;  admitted  to  the  bar  by  the  Circuit  Court  of 
Allegheny  county  May  1,  1856.  and  in  a  few  days  went  West  to  seek  his 
fortune  ;  located  in  Bloomfield,  Davis  county,  Iowa,  where  he  made  his  first 
campaign  for  Buchanan.  On  January  i,  1857.  located  permanently  at  Paris, 
Monroe  county.  Mo.;  was  elected  City  Attorney  ;  on  the  12th  day  of  October, 
1858,  was  married  to  Miss  Roana  C,  daughter  of  Major  Wm.  N.  Penn,  for 
many  years  Clerk  of  the  County  Court  of  that  county  ;  eight  children  were 
born  of  the  marriage,  of  whom  six  are  living.  He  was  enjoying  the  fruits 
of  a  good  country  practice  and  the  society  of  his  young  wife  when  the  civil 
war  came  on.  He  at  once  enlisted  and  assisted  in  organizing  a  company  of  the  Missouri  State  Guard,  of  which 
he  was  elected  Captain,  which,  after  participating  in  the  skirmishes  at  Boonville,  Monroe  City  and  Shelbina,  was 
organized  with  other  companies  into  a  battalion,  of  which  he  was  elected  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  afterward  with 
still  other  companies  into  a  regiment  as  the  Third  Cavalry  of  the  Second  Military  District  of  Missouri,  of  which  he  was 
elected  Colonel,  his  commission  bearing  date  September  23,  1861.  As  commander  of  this  regiment  he  joined  the  forces 
of  General  Price  before  Lexington,  and  remained  with  them  until  after  the  battle  of  Pea  Ridge.  When  the  term  of 
service  of  the  last  of  his  men  expired  and  they  were  discharged,  he  was  returning  to  North  Missouri  to  recruit 


JUDGE  BRACE— Continued. 

another  regiment,  and  while  sick  near  Springfield,  Mo.,  was  taken  prisoner  by  a  Federal  force  with  his  Adjutant  and 
Surgeon,  and  transferred  to  the  hospital  in  that  city,  whence  after  lingering  several  weeks  on  the  verge  of  the  grave, 
was  transferred  to  Myrtle  Street  Prison,  St.  Louis.  There  being  at  that  time  no  exchange  of  prisoners,  he  was,  on 
account  of  feeble  health,  after  a  time  paroled;  returned  to  his  home  at  Paris  and  took  no  further  part  in  the  war. 
After  the  war  he  acquired  a  leading  practice  in  Monroe  and  adjoining  counties,  which  he  retained  until  he  went  on 
the  bench,  serving  his  town  also  from  time  to  time  as  School  Trustee  and  Common  Councilman.  In  1872  the  Demo- 
cratic party  of  his  county  instructed  for  him  for  Congress.  In  1874  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  from  the  Sev- 
enth District,  and  served  through  two  sessions  of  the  Legislature  and  of  the  State  Board  of  Equalization.  At  the 
November  election  in  187S  he  was  elected  Probate  Judge  of  Monroe  county,  which  office  he  resigned  to  take  his 
seat  as  Judge  of  the  Sixteenth  Judicial  Circuit,  in  January  1881.  He  continued  to  serve  as  Judge  of  that  Circuit  until 
the  first  of  January,  1887,  when  he  took  his  seat  as  one  of  the  Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Missouri,  to  which  office  he 
had  been  elected  at  the  previous  November  election.  In  October,  1887,  he  was  elected  Grand  Master  of  Masons  of 
Missouri.  In  January,  1895,  he  was  elected  by  his  associates  on  the  bench  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  and 
Presiding  Judge  of  Division  No.  i  of  that  court.  At  the  Democratic  State  Convention,  held  at  Jefferson  City  in  August, 
1896,  he  was  re-nominated  by  that  party  as  its  candidate  to  succeed  himself  on  the  bench,  and  was  elected  at  the 
November  election  following  for  a  second  term  often  years,  receiving  341,927  votes  to  304,78:  votes  forjudge  Hirzel, 
Republican;  to  24,153  votes  for  John  M.  Voris,  Populist,  and  to  2,332  votes  for  Lewis  Adams,  Prohibitionist.  His 
record  as  a  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  commences  with  Volume  91  of  the  Missouri  Reports. 


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JUDGE  MACFARLANE. 


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HE  following  is  a  short  sketch  of  George  B.  Macfarlane,  one  of  the 
Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court.  He  is  a  native  Missourian  ;  was  born 
January  21,  1837,  and  educated  in  the  common  schools,  Richland  Academy 
and  Westminster  College  of  this  State.  He  taught  school  in  the  winter  sea- 
son and  worked  on  his  father's  farm  in  the  summer  from  1858  to  1865.  In 
1861  he  was  licensed  to  practice  law  by  Hon.  A.  H.  Buckner,  then  a  Circuit 
Judge.  He  then  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Mexico,  Missouri, 
and  soon  established  for  himself  the  reputation  of  an  able  lawyer.  He  took 
no  part  in  the  Civil  War;  voted  for  Bell  and  Everett  in  i860;  from  that  time 
until  this  he  has  been  a  firm  and  uncompromising  Democrat  and  always  votes  that  ticket  straight.  He  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Alice  Orear  of  Boone  county,  and  has  a  family. 

Judge  Macfarlane  was  Probate  Judge  of  Audrain  county  from  1871  to  1874,  but  has  never  held  any  purely  political 
office.  He  was  appointed  Supreme  Judge  by  Governor  Francis,  November  25,  1890,  and  nominated  and  elected  to  that 
position  by  the  Democratic  party  in  1892.  Few  abler  men  have  ever  sat  upon  the  Supreme  Bench  of  this  State  than 
Macfarlane;  as  a  lawyer  he  is  a  man  of  the  highest  excellence  and  ability.  His  deliberations  are  careful  and  conserva- 
tive and  his  opinions  are  given  from  a  cool-headed  and  non-prejudiced  standpoint.  He  is  high-minded,  conscientious, 
honorable,  and  a  gentleman  in  the  fullest  sense  of  that  great  term. 


JUDGE  ROBINSON. 


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'ALTOUR  M.  ROBINSON,  the  subject  of  this  brief  sketch,  is  one  of 
the  Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  this  State.  He  was  born  in 
Monroe  county,  near  Paris,  on  November  27,  1S51;  he  attended  the  public 
schools  and  afterward  completed  his  academic  training  in  William  Jewell 
College.  Resolving  to  adopt  law  as  his  profession,  he  entered  the  Union 
College  of  Law  of  the  Chicago  and  Northwestern  Universities  and  there 
qualified  himself  for  his  legal  duties.  In  1877  he  located  at  Webb  City,  in 
Jasper  county,  and  for  four  years  was  City  Attorney  of  Webb  City,  and  from 
this  was  elected  as  Prosecuting  Attorney  for  a  term  of  four  years  of  Jasper 
county.  In  1892  he  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Tweuty-fifth  Judicial  Circuit> 
and  while  serving  in  this  capacity  was  nominated  by  the  Republican  party 
for  Supreme  Judge  of  the  State  and  subsequently  elected  in  1894.  He  is  married.  Judge  Robinson  is  a  man  of 
many  superior  qualities;  in  politics  he  has  always  been  a  firm  Republican  and  is  an  able  defender  of  his  party's  faith. 
As  a  lawyer  he  is  able  and  serves  in  a  very  competent  manner  in  his  present  capacity.  He  is  a  thorough  gentleman 
and  an  honor  to  the  high  and  responsible  position  to  which  the  people  of  his  State  have  elevated  him. 


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JUDGE  GANTT. 

*HIS  short  sketch  is  a  brief  biography  of  James  B.  Gatitt,  of  the  Supreme 
Bench.  He  was  born  in  Putnam  county,  Georgia,  in  1845;  was  edu- 
cated in  the  private  schools  and  academies  of  that  State.  In  1862  he 
enlisted  in  the  Twelfth  Georgia  Regiment  of  Infantry,  C.  S.  A.,  and  served 
in  Jackson's  (or  the  Second)  Army  Corps,  Army  of  Northern  Virginia,  till 
permanently  disabled  by  a  wound  at  Cedar  Creek  Valley,  Va.,  October  19, 
1864;  he  was  wounded  twice  at  Gettysburg,  and  met  with  a  similar  misfor- 
tune at  the  Wilderness,  May  5,  1864.  After  the  war  he  read  law  under  Col. 
L.  N.  Whittle  at  Macon,  Ga.;  afterward  he  attended  the  Law  Department 
of  the  University  of  Virginia,  and  graduated  from  that  institution  in  1868; 
during  this  year  he  moved  to  Missouri.  He  has  never  held  any  political  ofl&ce;  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Twenty- 
second  Judicial  Circuit  in  1880  and  served  in  this  capacity  for  six  years;  he  declined  a  re-election  and  returned  to  the 
practice  of  his  chosen  profession  at  Clinton  in  '87.  In  1890^  he  was  elected  to  the  Supreme  Bench  to  succeed  Judge 
Robert  D.  Ray,  and  is  serving  in  that  honorable  capapity  at  the  present  time.  He  is  married  and  has  four  children. 
He  is  a  firm  Democrat,  an  able  barrister,  and  a  gentleman  eminently  qualified  to  serve  in  his  exalted  position. 


JUDGE  SHER  WOOD. 


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EW  more  rugged  men  ever  sat  upon  the  Supreme  Bench  of  Missouri 
than  Thomas  A.  Sherwood.  He  was  born  June  2,  1834,  in  Eatonton, 
Putnam  county,  Georgia,  and  was  educated  in  Mercer  University,  Georgia, 
and  ShurtlefF  College,  Illinois.  He  came  to  Missouri  in  1852  and  resided  in 
St.  Louis,  Cape  Girardeau,  Scott,  Newton,  Lawrence  and  Greene  counties. 
He  graduated  from  the  Law  Department  of  the  Cincinnati  Law  School  in 
1857,  and  in  that  same  year  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  In  1872  he  was  elected 
Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  and  re-elected  in  November  of  '82;  he  was 
again  the  candidate  of  his  party  in  1892  and  elected.  He  is  married  and  has 
a  family.  There  are  few  if  any  men  in  this  State  more  learned  in  the  law 
than  Judge  Sherwood.  He  is  a  man  who  has  devoted  his  whole  life  to  his 
profession,  and  from  the  fact  of  his  long  service  and  thoroughness  is  an  invaluable  man  in  the  deliberations  of  that 
great  body  of  which  he  is  a  member.  He  is  possessed  of  an  iron  will  that  nothing  save  reason  can  swerve.  Learned 
in  the  law,  a  man  of  rugged  character  and  a  Democrat  of  the  firmest  kind,  the  honors  of  a  Supreme  Judge  could  rest 
upon  the  shoulders  of  no  man  in  this  State  more  fittingly  than  Thomas  A.  Sherwood. 


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JUDGE    BURGESS. 

^HE  following  is  a  short  sketch  of  the  life  and  work  of  Garvon  D.  Bur- 
gess, of  the  Supreme  Bench  of  the  State  of  Missouri.  He  is  a  native 
of  Kentucky,  where  he  was  born  in  1835.  He  began  his  political  career  at 
an  early  stage,  having  been  elected  to  the  Missouri  Legislature  in  1858.  In 
1856  he  left  his  native  heath  and  came  to  Missouri.  He  was  nominated  in 
1868  by  the  Democratic  party  forjudge  of  the  Sixth  Judicial  District,  but  was 
defeated  ;  in  1874  he  was  nominated  for  Judge  of  the  Eleventh  District, 
( formerly  the  old  Sixth  )  and  was  elected  and  re-elected  to  the  same  posi- 
tion in  1880  and  1886.  In  1880,  1884  and  1888  he  was  a  prominent  candidate 
before  the  Democratic  State  conventions  for  Supreme  Judge,  and  was  the 
successful  contestant  for  that  position  in  1892.  He  is  a  married  man.  He 
began  his  career  as  a  lawyer  at  an  eirly  period  and  has  attained  a  position  of  prominence  and  recognition  gained 
by  few  men.  He  is  perfectly  at  home  with  his  present  duties,  being  a  man  thoroughly  versed  in  the  law,  with  a 
disposition  of  calm  deliberation.  Judge  Burgess  is  a  sterling  Democrat  and  a  firm  advocate  of  the  great  dominant 
principles  of  that  party. 


CLERK  SUPREME  COURT. 


THIS  cut  is  the  likeness  of  one  of  the  biggest  and  best  hearted  fellows 
who  stays  at  Missouri's  State  Capital — it  is  John  R.  Green,  the  Clerk 
of  the  Supreme  Court.  Mr.  Green  was  born  thirty-eight  years  ago  at  Kings- 
ton, Caldwell  county.  Mo.,  but  soon  after  moved  to  Richmond,  Ray 
county,  where  he  was  reared  and  educated  in  its  schools.  He  is  a  stanch  Dem- 
ocrat and  puts  in  his  idle  time  in  saying  good  words  for  the  party.  Mr. 
Green's  first  official  experience  was  that  of  Clerk  for  the  Circuit  Court  for 
Ray  county  ;  from  that  he  was  made  Clerk  of  the  Supreme  Court,  in  which 
capacity  he  serves  with  the  greatest  dispatch  and  efficiency.  On  November 
28.  1893,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Sallie  Creel,  of  Richmond,  and  has  two 
bright  little  daughters,  Jtary,  aged  nine,  and  Helen,  six.  Mr.  Green  started 
out  in  life  as  a  druggist  in  Kansas  City  and  from  that  branched  out  in 
clerical  work.  His  present  position  is  a  very  desirable  one,  with  four  assist- 
ants at  his  disposal.  Personally,  he  is  a  very  agreeable  gentleman,  and  numbers  his  friends  by  the  score.  There 
are  few  men  in  this  world  who  have  not  in  their  personal  make-up  some  feature  or  quality  which  the  gods  might  envy; 
it  may  be  the  genial  disposition,  the  hearty  hand- shake,  the  faculty  of  telling  a  good  story  in  a  good  way — in  fact, 
anything.  But  in  Mr.  Green's  case  it  is  his  superb  physique  ;  towering  in  height,  broad-shouldered,  a  massive  head, 
in  fact  a  rugged,  Roman-like  appearance  that  any  statesman  in  the  land  might  envy. 


REPORTER  SUPREME  COURT. 


FRANK  M.  BROWN,  whose  portrait  accompanies  this  sketch,  was  born 
in  Albemarle  county,  Virginia,  February  26,  1852.  When  he  was  two 
years  old  his  father.  Dr.  B.  D.  Brown,  moved  from  Virginia  to  Callaway 
county,  Missouri,  where  Mr.  Brown  was  reared.  In  1878  Mr.  Brown  was 
graduated  from  the  Academic  Department  of  the  Missouri  University  at  Co- 
lumbia, and  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Judge  G.  B.  Macfarlane 
and  Mr.  J.  McD.  Trimble  at  Mexico,  Mo.,  at  which  place  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar.  After  practicing  his  profession  a  short  while  he,  in  January,  1881, 
assumed  the  duties  of  assistant  in  the  office  of  the  State  Attorney  General, 
Hon.  D.  H.  Mclntyre,  at  Jefferson  City.  He  continued  in  this  position 
during  the  succeeding  four  years.  In  January,  1885,  he  entered  upon  the 
discharge  of  the  duties  of  Reporter  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Missouri.  He 
has  been  retained  in  that  position  by  the  Court  continuously  to  the  present 
time.  During  Mr.  Brown's  tenure  of  office  the  work  of  the  Reporter  has 
been  more  than  doubled  by  reason  of  the  increase  in  the  number  of  the 
Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  and  the  growth  of  litigation  in  the  State,  as  well  as  by  the  change  of  the  constitution  of 
the  Court  into  two  divisions.  Mr.  Brown's  work  as  Reporter  has  been  most  satisfactory  to  both  the  bench  and  bar  of 
the  State.  It  is  characterized  by  excellence  in  the  head  notes  of  the  cases  reported  and  by  the  thoroughness  and  care 
taken  in  the  details  of  the  work.  Mr.  Brown's  personality  is  such  as  to  make  him  esteemed  and  respected  by  all  who 
know  him,  and  has  endeared  him  to  a  large  circle  of  friends.  His  character  is  one  of  singular  fearlessness  and  con- 
scientious fidelity  to  principle.  On  May  15,  1883,  Mr.  Brown  was  married  to  Miss  Bettie  D.  French,  of  Mexico,  Mo. 
Five  children  have  been  born  to  them,  three  of  whom  are  living.  Mr.  Brown  is  associated  with  Mr.  Edwin  Silver  in 
the  law  firm  of  Silver  &  Brown  at  Jefferson  City.     In  politics  Mr.  Brown  is  a  Democrat. 


STATE  LIBRARIAN. 


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RS.  VIRGINIA  EDWARDS,  the  present  Librarian  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  is  a  typical  Missouri  woman,  capable,  earnest,  and  full  of 
energy.  She  was  formerly  Miss  Mary  Virginia  Plattenburg,  born  at  Dover, 
Lafayette  county,  Missouri,  and  a  daughter  of  one  of  the  oldest  and  best 
known  families  in  that  part  of  the  State.  March  28,  1871,  she  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Maj.  John  N.  Edwards,  the  famous  historian  of  Shelby's  Brig- 
ade, and  so  well  known  as  a  journalist  and  politician.  To  this  union  were 
born  three  children,  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

After  the  death  of  Major  Edwards  in  1890,  Mrs.  Edwards  edited  and 
published  a  volume  of  his  writings,  which  met  with  great  favor  from  the 
reading  public.  She  has  also  contributed  largely  to  newspapers  and  maga- 
zines, and  is  as  fine  a  conversationalist  as  she  is  a  writer.  During  the  years  1S92-3  she  held  the  important  position  of 
Secretary  to  the  Woman's  Board  of  World's  Fair  Commissioners  from  Missouri,  and  proved  a  highly  efficient  officer, 
November  17,  1896,  she  was  appointed  State  Librarian,  by  the  Supreme  court  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  and  is  now  dis- 
charging the  duties  of  that  office  in  a  highly  satisfactory  manner. 


ASSISTANT  ATTORNEY   GENERAL. 


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^HIS  cut  is  a  likeness  of  Samuel  B.  Jeffries,  the  Assistant  Attorney  Gen- 
eral of  the  State  of  Missouri.  Mr.  Jeffries  is  twenty-eight  years  old 
and  was  born  and  reared  in  Lewis  county.  He  first  served  his  apprentice- 
ship in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  county  and  then  completed  his  edu- 
cation in  La  Grange  College.  After  completing  his  academic  education  he 
entered  Washington  University  and  graduated  from  its  legal  department.  He 
then  returned  to  his  native  county  and  in  1894  was  elected  Prosecuting 
Attorney.  In  1896  he  became  a  candidate  for  re-election  and  received  a 
majority  of  1,036  votes  over  his  Republican  opponent,  thus  attesting  his 
popularity  among  the  people  amid  whom  he  grew  to  manhood.  The  Assist- 
ant Attorney  Generalship  being  offered  him,  however,  he  resigned  as  Prose- 
cuting Attorney  of  his  county,  January  11,  1897,  to  accept  this,  the  higher 
position.  Considering  that  he  has  been  practicing  law  only  five  years,  his 
career  is  somewhat  remarkable.  He  was  reared  and  passed  his  boyhood  days  on  his  father's  farm,  and  there  amid 
mules  and  growing  corn  were  instilled  in  him  the  energy  and  industry  which  equip  men  for  the  grandest  achiev- 
ments.  At  present  he  is  in  a  state  of  single  blessedness,  but  the  writer  of  this  little  sketch  refuses  to  guarantee  the 
continuance  of  this  condition  for  any  great  length  of  time,  considering  that  he  is  continually  surrounded  by  Jefferson 
City's  charming  girls.     No  young  man  in  the  State  has  a  brighter  future  than  Sam  B.  Jeffries. 


INSURANCE  COMMISSIONER. 


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*HE  subject  of  this  sketch  is  Ed.  T,  Orear,  the  genial  young  Democrat 
and  politician  from  Saline  county.  Mr.  Orear  is  thirty-nine  years  old 
and  was  born  in  the  above  county.  He  was  educated  -first  in  the  public 
schools,  and  afterward  completed  his  course  at  the  State  University.  He  was 
united  in  the  bonds  of  wedlock  to  Miss  Helen  Owens,  of  Sweet  Springs,  Mo., 
and  is  the  father  of  two  bright,  healthy  little  boys,  who  he  will  train  up  in 
the  true  Democratic  faith.  Mr.  Orear' s  first  official  work  was  that  of  the 
Assistant  Cashier  of  the  Bank  of  Saline.  Afterward  he  was  chosen  as  the 
Chief  Clerk  to  Treasurer  Stephens,  and  served  in  that  capacity  with  much 
ability  and  efficiency. 

When  the  campaign  opened  in  1896  Mr.  Orear  started  out  as  one  of  the 
most  ardent  friends  of  Lon  V,  Stephens'  campaign  for  Governor,  and  ren- 
dered invaluable  service  in  that  particular.  Mr.  Orear  is  a  shrewd  man  in 
campaign  affairs:  to  begin  with,  he  is  a  good  mixer  and  moves  among  men  with  the  ease  and  grace  of  an  old  politi- 
cian, and  it  is  this  agreeable  feature  in  his  personal  nature  that  aids  him  very  materially.  He  has  received  the  appoint- 
ment of  State  Superintendent  of  Insurance  from  Governor  Stephens,  and  will  fill  this  office  for  the  next  four  years- 
no  man  in  the  State  could  fill  it  more  efficiently,  nor  is  any  Democrat  more  worthy  of  this  recognition  at  the  hand  of 
the  Governor  of  Missouri.  Starting  in  his  political  career  in  the  prime  of  life,  with  the  blessings  and  good  wishes  of 
the  Democracy  of  the  State,  no  young  man  in  Missouri  has  a  brighter  future  than  has  Edward  T.  Orear. 


ADJUTANT-GENERAL. 


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NE  of  the  most  popular  men  who  will  be  at  Missouri's  State  Capital 
for  the  next  four  years  is  Gen.  M.  Fred  Bell,  the  newly  appointed 
Adjutant-General.  Gen.  Bell  was  born  at  Hagerstown,  Md.,  in  1849,  ^nd 
there  grew  to  manhood.  He  was  educated  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  and  is  an  archi- 
tect by  profession.  He  has  been  with  the  good  people  of  this  State  since 
1869,  and  came  here  from  Virginia.  He  resides  at  Fulton,  and  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Dreps  of  that  city;  he  is  the  father  of  two  bright  and 
accomplished  daughters. 

Gen.  Bell  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  State  Reform 
School  at  Boonvilie,  and  is  President  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  Missouri  School  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  which 
institution  is  located  at  Fulton. 

Gen.  Bell  has  always  been  a  Democrat  of  the  truest  blue,  and  has  borne  with  the  Democratic  party  in  all  its 
triumphs  and  defeats  in  this  State;  he  is  a  tireless  worker,  and  his  appointment  was  a  just  tribute  to  his  unrelenting 
work.  In  his  profession  as  an  architect  he  has  been  eminently  successful.  Everybody  knows  M.  Fred  Bell,  and  no 
man  in  the  State  could  add  more  fitting  dignity  to  the  office  than  this  thoroughbred  Democrat  from  the  "  Kingdom 
of  Callaway."  He  was  State  Architect  for  Asylum  No.  3,  Nevada;  Reform  School  for  Boys,  Boonvilie;  University 
Buildings,  Columbia;  School  for  Deaf  and  Dumb,  Fulton.  Gen.  Bell  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Archi- 
tects, and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  best  architects  in  the  State. 


WARDEN  PENITENTIARY. 


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*  HIS  is  a  brief  biographical  sketch  of  John  D.  Stark,  the  newly  appointed 
Warden  of  the  State  Penitentiary.  He  was  born  August  3,  1842,  in 
Kanah  county,  Virginia,  and  came  to  this  State  when  he  was  a  mere  child, 
settling  in  Cooper  county,  where  he  was  reared  and  where  he  now  resides. 
He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Agnes  Stratton  of  Cooper  county, 
formerly  of  Kanah  county,  Virginia,  when  he  was  but  nineteen  years  of  age. 
In  politics  he  has  always  been  a  firm  and  unflinching  Democrat.  He  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Cooper  county 
in  1880,  and  in  1882  was  elected  County  Collector;  he  was  re-elected  to  the  same  place  in  1884;  in  1890  he  was  elected 
State  Senator  from  the  Fourteenth  Senatorial  District.  He  is  also  a  man  who  has  seen  much  of  frontier  life.  In  1861 
he  went  to  Salt  Lake  .City  as  Assistant  Wagon  Master  of  a  transportation  train  and  in  1865  made  the  same  trip  as 
Wagon  Master.  He  has  been  an  active  Mason  since  1884,  and  is  in  every  way  a  high  minded  man  and  a  worthy 
Democrat.  Governor  Stephens  has  made  no  mistake  in  appointing  Mr.  Stark  as  Warden — he  will  make  one  of  the  most 
capable  and  efficient  men  who  ever  served  in  that  capacity  in  the  State. 


(2a) 


CAPTAIN  GEORGE  H.  ROACH. 


CAPTAIN  GEORGE  H.  ROACH,  Seventeenth  U.  S.  Infantry,  Assistant 
Inspector  General,  Missouri,  was  born  June  19,  1847,  in  New  York; 
educated  in  the  public  schools.  Captain  Roach  served  the  last  two  years  of 
the  late  war  in  the  Twenty -sixth  Illinois  Infantry,  enlisting  at  the  age  of  six- 
teen. He  served  in  the  Fifteenth  Army  Corps,  participating  in  the  Atlanta 
Campaign,  Pursuit  of  Hood,  March  to  the  Sea,  Campaign  in  the  Caro- 
linas,  1865.  He  was  appointed  Second  Lieutenant,  Seventeenth  Infantry, 
October  3,  1873,  and  served  in  the  Northwest,  in  Dakota,  Montana  and 
Wyoming  until  September,  1895,  when,  on  request  of  Governor  Stone,  he  was 
detailed  by  the  Secretary  of  War  for  duty  with  the  National  Guard  of  this 
T^g  State.     Assigned  to  duty  as  Assistant  Inspector  General  of  Missouri  his  work 

has  been  laborious  and  painstaking.  In  the  performance  of  this  duty  he  is 
becoming  one  of  the  best  known  men  in  the  State  and  is  very  popular  with  the  officers  and  men  of  the  National 
Guard.  Captain  Roach  is  a  strict  disciplinarian,  but  with  broad  and  liberal  views  gathered  from  long  experience.  He 
has  been  instrumental  in  securing  the  passage  of  National  Guard  measures  before  the  Legislature,  and  was  one  of 
the  authors  and  urgent  promoters  of  the  new  Code  of  Military  Laws  and  Regulations.  He  is  married  and  has  two 
sons.     His  residence  is  Jefferson  City. 


LABOR  COMMISSIONER. 


ARTHUR  ROZELLE,  Labor  Commissioner  of  Missouri,  was  born  in 
Luzern  county,  Pennsylvania,  November  20,  1859;  was  reared  in  Page 
county,  Iowa;  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  there  and  at  Amity  college, 
Iowa.  He  spent  a  number  of  years  in  teaching  before  engaging  in  the  news- 
paper business,  sixteen  years  ago.  His  first  experience  in  politics  was  with 
the  Greenback  party,  then  with  the  Union  Labor  Party,  the  latter  being 
succeeded  by  the  People's  (or  Populist)  Party,  which  he  helped  to  organize  at 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  May  1891,  and  with  which  he  has  afiiliated  since.  He 
never  sought  nor  held  a  public  ofl&ce  until  appointed  Labor  Commissioner. 
He  has  been  Chairman  of  the  Populist  State  Central  and  Executive  Com- 
mittees of  Missouri  since  1893,  and  served  two  years  as  member  of  the 
Populist  National  Committee.  Mr.  Rozelle  has  been  a  resident  of  Missouri 
seven  years,  having  established  the  Independent  at  Tarkio,  Atchison  county,  in  1890.  In  1895  he  located  at  Lamar, 
Barton  county,  and  is  now  the  publisher  of  the  Industrial  Leader  at  that  place,  and  is  also  a  part  owner  of  the  South- 
west News,  of  Greenfield,  Dade  county.  He  is  a  thorough  and  practical  newspaper  man,  and  since  the  organization 
of  the  People's  Party  he  has  devoted  almost  all  his  time  and  liberally  of  his  means,  to  fostering  its  growth  and 
progress.  Starting  his  career  as  a  Peter  Cooper  Greenbacker,  he  has  always  advocated  the  reforms  now  championed 
by  the  People's  Party.  He  has  been  prominently  identified  with  the  leading  labor  organizations  for  years,  and  is 
especially  qualified  for  the  position  to  which  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Stephens  on  February  7,  1897 — that  of 
Labor  Commissioner  of  Missouri, 


INSPECTOR   OF  MINES. 


CHARLES  EVANS,  Inspector  of  Mines,  Higbee  (Democrat). — Born  in  South  Wales,  August  15,  1834;  began  to 
work  in  coal  mines  when  eight  years  old;  never  went  to  school  a  day;  learned  to  write  on  a  tin  dinner  pail  by 
blackening  it  with  the  smoke  from  a  miner's  lamp,  using  a  nail  for  a  stencil;  learned  to  read  in  Sunday  school;  has 
spent  all  his  life  in  mining,  as  a  miner,  foreman  and  superintendent;  immigrated  to  the  United  States  in  1858;  worked 
in  the  mines  of  the  Eastern  states,  coming  to  Missouri  in  1866,  since  which  time  he  has  been  active  in  developing  and 
opening  mines;  has  lived  in  Randolph  county  twenty  years;  has  been  member  of  the  City  Council  at  Higbee,  and  has 
been  a  school  director  for  a  number  of  years;  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the  business  enterprises  of  his  town,  and  is 
one  of  its  substantial  citizens;  appointed  Mine  Inspector  by  Governor  Stone  in  March,  1893,  and.  re-appointed  in  1895, 
also  re-appointed  by  Governor  Stephens  in  1897.     Married. 


INSPECTOR   OF  LEAD,  ZINC  AND  IRON. 


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*HE  subject  of  this  sketch  is  George  E.  Quinby,  the  State  Mine 
Inspector  of  lead,  zinc  and  iron.  He  resides  at  Webb  City,  Mo. ;  was 
born  in  Barren  county,  Kentucky,  January  i6,  1856 ;  his  parents  left  Ken- 
tucky in  1863  and  the  most  of  Mr.  Quinby's  days  were  passed  in  Illinois  and 
the  State  of  his  birth.  He  received  the  greater  portion  of  his  education  in 
Wayne  county,  Illinois.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Tettie  Camp,  daughter  of 
Dr.  George  Camp,  of  Mt.  Erie,  111. ;  he  has  one  son,  who  is  fifteen  years  old 
at  the  present  time. 

Politically,    he  is  a   stanch   Democrat  and   always   votes   that    ticket 

straight ;  he  was  a  member  of  the  City  Council  at  Webb  City  from  1894  to 

1896,  and  was  President  of  that  council  in  1894-5.     He  first  came  to  this 

State  in  1875  and  has  resided  at  Webb  City  since  1891.     He  was  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  from  1883  to  1895 

except  for  a  year  or  two.     He  has  extensive  property  interests  in  and  around  Webb  City  and  Newton  county.     He  is 

in  every  way  competent  to  discharge  the  duties  of  his  present  responsible  position. 


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W.  MARSTELLER'S  brief  biography  is  included  in  this  sketch.     He 
•     was  born  forty-nine  years  ago  at  Winchester,  Virginia,  and  there  grew 
to  manhood;  was  educated  in  its  public  schools  and  equipped  himself  gener- 
ally for  important  clerical  work. 

He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Annie  B.   Chishalm,   of  Cincinnati, 
Ohio.     He  has  an  adopted  nephew,  but  no  children  of  his  own. 

He  is  at  present  the  First  Assistant  to  the  Labor  Commissioner,  the  Coal 

Mine  Inspector  and  the  Lead  and  Zinc  Inspector.     He  has  resided  in  this 

State  since  1893,    and  came  here  from  Cincinnati  where  he  was  Chief  Clerk 

to  the  Chief  Engineer  of  the  Southern  Railway,  and    afterward  became 

Private  Secretary  to  the  President  of  the  above  road.      He  is  a  firm  Democrat  and  served  in  the  Rebel  army  when  he 

■was  only  seventeen  years  old. 

He  is  at  the  present  time  a  trustee  and  president  of  the  Board  of  Deacons  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.     He  is  a 
capable  man  in  every  respect  and  serves  in  an  invaluable  manner  in  his  present  capacity. 


CHIEF  INSPECTOR  OF  GRAIN. 


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<HE  subject  of  this  sketch,  Joseph  C.  A.  Hiller,  Chief  Inspector  of  Grain 
for  Missouri,  was  born  on  March  t,  1856,  in  the  Province  of  Silesia » 
Prussia.     He  came  to  St.  Louis  county,   Missouri,   in  the  beginning  of  the 
year  1870,  where  he  lived  with  his  father  on  a  farm. 

He  was  married  on  November  15,  1876,  to  Miss  Emma  Ehlert,  who  was 
born  in  the  county  named  on  January  10,  1858.  Joining  his  fortune  with 
those  of  the  Democratic  party,  he  took  an  active  part  in  politics  even 
before  he  arrived  at  the  age  of  maturity,  and  when  he  was  finally  old 
enough  to  vote  participated  not  only  in  the  work,  but  the  conventions  of  his 
party. 

He  removed  to  Barton  county,  in  Southwest  Missouri,  in  1883,  where 
he  lived  on  a  farm  until  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1894,  when  he  was  ap- 
pointed to  a  position  in  the  Grain  Inspection  Department.  Meanwhile  he  had  taken  a  very  active  part  in  the  politics 
of  the  Southwest.  He  was  a  leading  member  and  officer  of  the  Barton  County  Alliance  and  the  Farmers  and  Labor- 
ers' Union  of  the  State.  He  represented  the  latter  body  in  the  National  Convention  of  that  organization  at  Ocala, 
Fla.  He  was  elected  to  represent  Barton  county  in  the  House  of  the  Thirth-sixth  and  Thirty -seventh  General  Assem- 
blies, where  he  served  as  chairman  of  some  of  the  most  important  committees.  In  November,  1892,  he  was  appointed 
a  member  of  the  so-called  Auditing  Committee  by  Gov.  Francis,  and  in  November  1895,  he  was  chosen  for  a  term  of 
four  years  to  serve  as  Chief  Inspector  of  Grain  for  the  State  of  Missouri. 


STATE  GEOLOGIST 


CHARLES  R.  KEYES,  director  of  the  Bureau  of  Geology  and  Mines, 
was  born  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  in  1864.  His  early  education  was 
received  under  private  tutors  and  in  the  public  schools.  He  attended  Cal- 
lanan  college  four  years,  and  was  graduated  from  the  State  University  in 
1887,  proceeding  subsequently  to  the  doctorate,  at  the  Johns  Hopkins  Uni- 
versity, of  Baltimore.  During  these  years  special  attention  was  given  to 
geology,  the  natural  sciences  and  engineering.  For  two  years  Dr.  Keyes 
was  engaged  on  the  U.  S.  Geological  Survey  in  the  Appalachian  region.  He 
came  to  Missouri  in  1891  as  principal  geologist  to  the  Missouri  Geological 
Survey,  but  was  soon  called  to  Iowa  as  Assistant  State  Geologist,  with 
practically  full  charge  of  the  work.  He  remained  there  only  a  short  time 
when  he  was  called  back  to  this  State  to  supervise  the  Bureau  of  Geology  and 
Mines.  Dr.  Keyes  has  published  seven  large  volumes  on  geological  subjects,  besides  over  150  shorter  memoirs, 
embracing  the  results  of  geological  researches  that  have  appeared  in  the  leading  scientific  magazines,  and  several  of 
these  articles  have  been  translated  and  printed  in  foreign  periodicals.  He  is  a  most  capable  and  efficient  man  for  the 
position  he  occupies;  and  his  work  is  destined  to  be  of  great  and  lasting  benefit  to  this  State. 


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BUILDING  AND  LOAN  SUPERVISOR. 


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HE  accompanying  cut  is  a  likeness  of  Henry  L.  Gray,  the  Building  and 

Loan  Supervisor  of  Missouri.     Mr.  Gray  was  born  fifty-one  years  ago 

in  St.  Charles  county  and  has  spent  his  life  among  the  good  people  of  his 

native  State;  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  and  by  close  observance 

and  attention  throughout  his  life  has  become  a  much-informed  man.     He 

was  married  to  Miss  Sophia  Dinwiddie,  of  Boone  county,  Missouri,  and  has 

one  son,  Omar  D.  Gray,  editor  of  the  Sturgeon  Leader.     Mr.  Gray's  former 

occupation  was  that  of  a  merchant  and  traveling  salesman  ;  was  Assistant 

Secretary  of  the  Senate  in   1887,  Secretary  of  that  body  in  1889-91,  Chief 

Clerk  of  the  Labor  Bureau  from  '91  to  '95.     At  the  present  time  he  is  serving 

in  the  capacity  of  Deputy  Supervisor  of  Building  and  Loan  Associations.     Everybody  knows  Henry  Gray — he  num* 

bers  his  friends  by  those  who  know  him,  and  is  a  man  in  every  way  eminently  qualified  for  the  responsible  position 

which  he  now  holds. 


CHIEF  CLERK  PARK. 


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HE  efficient  and  popular  Chief  Clerk  to  the  Secretary  of  State,  has  held 
that  important  position  since  1890,   and  has  discharged  its  duties  to 


the  entire  satisfaction  of  all  concerned.  He  was  born  October  12,  1842,  in 
Madison  county,  Kentucky.  Reared  in  that  State  and  in  Missouri;  educated 
;  in  private  schools  and  at  University  of  Louisville.  By  occupation  he  is  a 
•lawyer  and  editor.  Residence,  Platte  City,  Mo.  He  was  County  Clerk  of 
Platte  county  two  terms,  beginning  in  1871.  Mr.  Park  is  a  Democrat,  tried 
and  true,  and  has  done  much  valuable  work  for  his  party.  He  edited  the  Platte  City  Landmark  eighteen  years,  and 
was  President  of  the  Missouri  Press  Association  1877-8.  Mr.  Park  came  to  Missouri  in  1857,  and  in  early  manhood 
married  Miss  Margaret  E.  Baxter,  of  Clay  county,  Mo.  They  have  two  sons.  Few  men  enjoy  so  fully  the  esteem 
and  confidence  of  their  fellowmen  as  does  Mr.  Park,  and  none  more  fully  deserves  it. 


CHIEF  CLERK  ALLEN. 


A    LBERT  O.  ALLEN  (Democrat),  of  New  Madrid,  Mo.,  Chief  Clerk  in 


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the  office  of  the  State  Auditor,  is  a  native  of  Madison  county,  this 
State,  where  he  was  born  in  1843.  He  was  reared  in  Southeast  Missouri  and 
was  educated  at  Arcadia  High  School.  He  owns  the  New  Madrid  Record, 
an  influential  newspaper,  and  has  held  several  important  offices,  having  rep- 
resented New  Madrid  county  in  the  Twenty-seventh  General  Assembly  ;  was 
Chief  Clerk  under  State  Auditor  Halliday  six  years  and  eight  years  under 
State  Auditor  Seibert.  During  the  Civil  War  he  served  four  years  in  the 
First  Missouri  Infantry,   Cockrell's  Brigade,  C.  S.    A.,    as  Sergeant.     Mr. 

Allen  is  married,  and  he  is  not  only  a  splendid  man  of  affairs  but  a  model  husband.     The  name  of  Albert  O,  Allen  is 

known  and  respected  throughout  the  State. 


CHIEF  CLERK  BASSETT. 


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*HE  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  genial  and  gentlemanly  William  K 
Bassett,  the  Chief  Clerk  in  the  office  of  State  Treasurer.  Mr.  Bassett- 
was  born  September  2,  1863,  in  Paris,  Mo.,  in  Monroe  county,  the  banner 
Democratic  county  of  the  State.  There,  amid  influences  and  surroundings 
that  were  distinctly  Democratic  he  grew  to  manhood;  was  educated  in  its 
schools  and  besides  learning  the  valuable  contents  of  books,  learned  how  to 
vote  the  Democratic  ticket  absolutely  straight.  After  getting  the  ordinary 
education  oflfered  by  the  common  schools  he  completed  his  training  in  the 
State  University.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Abbie  McDaniel,  of  Warrensburg, 
and  with  her  lives  a  happy  life.  He  has  been  Mayor  of  Paris,  the  county  seat  of  Monroe  county,  and  was  Deputy 
County  Clerk  for  a  period  of  ten  years.  This  position  he  resigned  to  become  Assistant  State  Treasurer.  He  is  a  pol- 
ished young  man,  courteous,  able  and  ambitious  and  has  a  bright  career  in  the  councils  of  his  party  in  this  State. 


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U.  S.  SENATOR    VEST. 


GEORGE  GRAHAM  VEST,  of  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Frankfort, 
Ky.,  December  6,  1830  ;  graduated  at  Centre  College,  Kentucky,  in 
1848,  and  in  the  Law  Department  of  Transylvania  University,  at  Lexington, 
Ky.,  in  1853  \  removed  the  same  year  to  Missouri  and  began  the  practice  of 
law  in  Central  Missouri ;  was  a  Presidential  Elector  on  the  Democratic 
ticket  in  i860  ;  was  a  member  of  the  Missouri  House  of  Representatives  in 
1860-61  ;  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Confederate 
Congress  for  two  years  and  a  member  of  the  Confederate  Senate  for  one 
year ;  was  elected  to  the  United  States  Senate  as  a  Democrat,  in  place  of 
James  Shields,  Democrat  (who  had  been  elected  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused 
by  the  death  of  Lewis  V.  Bogy,  Democrat);  took  his  seat  March  18,  1879  I  was  re-elected  in  1885  and  1891,  and  again 
on  January  18,  1897,  by  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  His  term  of  office  will  expire  March  3,  1903.  Few 
men  have  so  ably  and  acceptably  represented  their  constituents  in  the  Senate  of  the  United  States,  and  Mr.  Vest 
will  ever  be  remembered  in  Missouri  as  a  true  and  faithful  exponent  of  the  political  principles  and  policies  held  by 
the  great  majority  of  his  people. 


U.  5.  SENATOR  COCKRELL. 


FRANCIS  MARION  COCKRELL,  Warrensburg  (Democrat).— Born  in  Johnson  county,  Mo.,  October  i,  1834; 
received  his  early  education  in  the  common  schools  of  his  county;  graduated  from  Chapel  Hill  College,  Lafay. 
ette  county,  Mo.,  in  July,  1853;  studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar;  never  held  any  public  office  prior  to  his 
election  to  the  Senate;  entered  Missouri  State  Guard  as  private  in  1861;  subsequently  elected  Captain,  and  served  for 
about  six  months;  entered  Confederate  army  January,  1862,  enlisted  as  a  private,  "for  the  war;"  soon  afterward  elected 
Captain;  promoted  to  Lieutenant-Colonel;  promoted  to  Colonel,  then  to  Brigadier-General,  and  placed  in  command  of 
a  division;  elected  to  the  Senate  and  took  his  seat  March  4,  1875;  was  re-elected  in  1881,  in  1887,  and  again  in  1893  for 
a  term  to  expire  in  1899.  He  enjoys  to  the  fullest  extent  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  who'.e  people  of  his  State, 
regardless  of  political  belief.  Is  one  of  the  most  attentive  and  efficient  public  servants  that  ever  sat  in  the  United 
States  Senate. 


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SENATOR  PEERS. 


^HE  subject  of  this  sketch  is  Charles  E.  Peers  of  Warrenton,  the  recog- 
nized leader  of  the  Democrats  in  the  State  Senate.  Mr.  Peers  was 
born  May  2,  1844,  at  Troy,  Lincoln  county.  He  has  had  a  wide  experience 
in  legislative  affairs,  having  filled  the  position  of  Circuit  Attorney  from  1868 
to  1872,  an  office  which  has  since  been  abolished.  He  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  Twenty-seventh  General  Assembly,  and  in  1888  was  appointed  by  Gov. 
Morehouse  to  fill  a  vacancy  on  the  bench  of  the  St.  Louis  Court  of  Appeals. 
Later  he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Committee  to  visit  State  Institutions 
and  report  their  condition  to  the  Thirty-eighth  General  Assembly,  by  Gov. 
Stone.  He  was  Chairman  of  this  Committee.  Mr.  Peers  is  an  attorney  by 
profession  and  there  are  few  men  in  the  State  who  excel  him  upon  legal 
technicalities  or  upon  Constitutional  law.  He  also  enjoys  the  reputation  of 
being  the  best  presiding  ofiicer  in  the  State  of  Missouri,  which  is  saying  a 
great  deal.  No  man  in  the  State  is  more  at  home  in  a  turbulent  convention 
than  the  Senator  from  Warren  county,  and  no  man  can  quell  a  lot  of  howling  delegates  more  easily — he  rules  with  an 
iron  hand,  and  being  an  expert  parliamentarian  he  never  makes  a  mistake  in  ruling.  Senator  Peers  is  a  man  of  strong 
personality,  which  attracts  admiration  from  his  enemies  as  well  as  his  friends.  In  a  political  fight  he  is  an  unterrified 
and  aggressive  fighter  and  knows  but  seldom  the  meaning  of  the  word  "defeated."  It  would  be  useless  to  attempt,  in 
this  short  biography,  to  name  the  bills  which  the  Senator  from  Warrenton  has  fathered,  for  it  would  be  an  impossi- 
bility to  do  so. 

Personally  Senator  Peers  is  a  very  agreeable  man;  as  a  Democrat,  uncompromising;  as  a  man,  upright  and  honor- 
able.    Missouri  and  Missourians  are  proud  of  the  statesman  and  Senator  from  Warren  county. 


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SENATOR   MAJOR. 


FEW  brighter  young  men  have  occupied  a  seat  in  the  historic  chamber 
ofthe  State  Senate  than  Elliott  W.  Major,  the  member  from  the  Elev- 
enth District.  Senator  Major  was  born  thirty-two  years  ago  in  Lincoln 
county,  Mo.,  but  is  at  present  a  resident  of  Bowling  Green,  Pike  county. 
He  is  a  young  man  of  educational  polish  and  grace,  and  is  a  lawyer  by  pro- 
fession; with  an  experience  of  only  eleven  years,  he  at  the  present  time 
commands  a  large  and  lucrative  practice,  both  civil  and  criminal,  in  Pike 
and  adjoining  counties.  But  while  he  has  been  eminently  successful  in  the 
law,  he  has  in  him  all  those  peculiar  qualifications  which  fit  him  for  the  life 
of  a  statesman,  and  no  man  ever  entered  the  Senate  Chamber  of  this  State 
with  heartier  commendation  or  more  good  wishes.  The  recent  campaign 
gave  the  young  Senator  from  Pike  an  opportunity  to  show  his  true  iron. 
Receiving  an  invitation  to  participate  in  the  fight  in  Illinois,  he  accepted 
and  was  received  with  the  greatest  enthusiasm.  He  traveled  with  Bryan's 
special,  and  in  his  last  speech  in  Chicago,  at  the  People's  Institute,  the  Chi- 
cago Record  said  of  him  :  "  There  was  one  speaker  who  was  able  to  make 
the  audience  forget  that  Bryan  was  late,  and  the  hours  were  long.  It  was 
Senator  Elliott  W.  Major,  of  Missouri.  Thirty  minutes  after  his  first  speech 
he  came  back  with  another  in  response  to  an  ovation,  second  only  to  that 
given  the  presidential  candidate."  During  the  discussion  of  the  Fellow 
Servant  law  in  the  Senate  Senator  Major  made  what  the  metropolitan  press 
termed  the  ablest  speech  made  in  its  behalf  in  either  branch  ofthe  Assem- 
bly. His  nominating  speech  of  Senator  Vest  was  a  most  beautiful  tribute  ofthe  most  elegant  rhetoric,  and  recited  in 
a  happy  and  eloquent  way  the  qualities  of  that  great  statesman — "  Missouri's  Little  Giant."  Another  speech  which 
deserves  special  mention  is  his  plea  for  the  ex-Confederate  Home  bill;  it  was  a  beautiful  appeal,  full  of  tenderness  and 
pathos  for  the  old  and  tottering  soldiers  who  followed  the  glorious  though  defeated  flag  of  Lee.  Everybody  likes  the 
enthusiastic  young  Democratic  statesman  from  Pike.  He  wears  his  laurels  with  perfect  unconsciousness,  and  has  a  kind 
word  for  everyone.  Missouri's  people  love  young  men  of  his  open  candor  and  enthusiasm;  he  is  one  whom  it  is  a 
pleasureto  know  in  this  age  ot  political  degeneracy.  Young  in  years,  with  a  keen  intellect  and  the  hope  and  ambition 
of  the  patriot  and  the  statesman,  no  young  man  in  the  State  has  a  brighter  future  than  this  young  Senator  from 
old  Pike. 


SENATOR  McCLINTIC. 


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*HE  subject  of  this  sketch  is  Senator  William  S.   McClintic,  one  of  the 
most  substantial  Democrats  in  the  Senate  of  Missouri.     He   was  bom 
fifty-three  years  ago  in  the  County  of  Rockbridge  in  Virginia.     There  he 
received  his  educational  training  and  spent  his  boyhood  days;  he  came  to 
Missouri  in  1867,  and  prior  to  that  time  had  resided  in  Tennessee  for  several 
years.     He  left  the  Virginia  Military  Institute  in  i86r  and  entered  the  Con- 
federate army  in  Stonewall  Jackson's  Brigade  and  served  throughout  the 
war  in  the  army  of  northern  Virginia;  he  followed  the  flag  whose  meteoric 
splendor  ended  in  defeat  and  laid  down  his  sword  at  Appomattox.     He  is 
married  and  has  six  living  children:  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  from 
Marion   county  in    1888,  and  in    1892  was   elected  State   Senator  from   the 
Thirteenth  Senatorial  District.     He  is  a  Democrat  of  the  most  pronounced  kind  and  is  a  very  strong  man  in  the  body 
of  which  he  is  a  member.     Being  a  farmer  he  is  thoroughly  imbued  with  their  interests  and  there  are  many  of  his 
enthusiastic  friends  over  the  State  who  earnestly  desire  his  elevation  to  higher  honors  in  the  political  future  of  Missouri, 


SENATOR  O'BANNON. 


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HE  biggest  man  in  the  present  State  Senate  is  James  P.  O'Bannon,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch.  Mr.  O'Bannon  is  thirty-eight  years  old,  was 
born  in  Dallas  county,  Mo.,  and  educated  in  its  common  schools.  He  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Louisa  E.  Robbins,  of  his  native  county,  and  is 
father  of  four  children,  two  boys  and  two  girls.  Mr.  O'Bannon  is  by  no 
means  an  amateur  in  politics.  In  1882  he  was  made  Circuit  Clerk  and  ex- 
officio  Recorder  in  Dallas  county,  and  afterward  made  the  race  and  was 
re-elected.  In  1890  he  went  before  the  Senatorial  Convention  of  his  district 
and  was  given  the  nomination  and  election  ;  his  popularity  is  attested  by  the 
fact  that  in  1894  he  was  re-elected.  Until  recently  he  was  editor  and  publisher 
of  the  Buffalo  Reflex,  a  sturdy  Republican  newspaper.  For  years  he  has  been 
Chairman  of  the  Republican  Central  Committee  of  Dallas  county,  and  is  at 
the  present  time  a  member  of  the  State  Committee  ;  in  this  capacity  he  has  served  for  ten  years.  Mr.  O'Bannon  is 
one  of  the  most  prominent  Republicans  in  the  State  and  plays  an  active  part  in  the  present  State  Senate.  He  is  in 
size  and  weight  in  the  Senate  what  the  irrepressible  and  gallant  Colonel  John  T.  Crisp  is  in  the  House  of  Represent- 
atives— by  far  the  biggest  man  in  it;  in  other  words,  Mr.  O'Bannon  is  "sort  of  a  Tom  Reed  "  in  the  Republican 
minority  of  the  Senate.  He  is  agreeable  in  nature,  and  in  every  way  one  of  the  most  substantial  members  in  the 
upper  mill  of  Missouri  lawmakers. 


SENATOR    HOHENSCHILD. 


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^HERE  are  few  more  brilliant  young  Democrats  in  the  State  of  Missouri 
than  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Senator  Henry  H.  H  ihenschild,  who 
is  the  youngest  member  of  the  Senate.  He  was  born  in  1865,  in  St.  Louis, 
but  at  present  resides  in  Rolla,  Mo.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  and  High 
schools  of  St.  Louis,  and  afterward  attended  several  architectural  schools, 
from  which  institutions  he  perfected  himself  in  his  chosen  profession,  that 
of  architecture. 

In  politics  Senator  Hohenschild  is  an  ardent  and  uncompromising  Dem- 
ocrat and  believes  firmly  in  the  great  fundamental  principles  of  that  party  to 
which  so  many  illustrious  men  have  dedicated  their  lives.  Up  to  this  time 
Cupid  has  not  succeeded  in  entangling  the  handsome  young  Senator  in  any 
matrimonial  complication — how  long  he  will  be  able  to  elude  the  flying 
arrows  of  the  tricky  little  god  of  love,  however,  no  one  presumes  to  say. 

No  young  man  is  more  respected  by  his  fellow  Senators  than  Hohenschild;  to  know  him  is  to  be  attracted  by  his 
charming  personality  and  frank,  open  young  manhood. 

The  speech  on  the  companion  bills  to  establish  homes  for  ex-Confederate  and  Federal  soldiers,  delivered  in  the 
Senate  by  this  young  Senator,  was  one  of  the  most  beautiful  orations  that  has  been  heard  in  that  historic  chamber 
for  years.  He  is  a  young  man  of  eloquence  and  ability,  and  has  a  host  of  warm  and  admiring  friends,  who  hope  for 
him  that  the  future  will  finally  give  to  him  all  that  it  promises  at  present. 


SENATOR  BURKHEAD, 


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HO  represents  the  Nineteenth  District  in  the  Senate  of  the  Thirty- 
ninth  General  Assembly,  is  one  of  the  most  talented  and  worthy 
men  in  that  talented  body.  He  was  born  in  Coweta  county,  Georgia,  Jan- 
uary 20,  i860,  and  was  educated  in  the  private  schools  of  Alabama  ;  began 
teaching  in  his  eighteenth  year,  and  taught  two  years;  read  law  in  the  office  of 
Robinson  &  Brown;  at  Scottsboro,  Ala.,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  by  the 
Supreme  Court  of  that  State  February  3,  1883  ;  practiced  in  the  Twenty- 
second  Judicial  Circuit  in  partnership  with  ex-Governor  Lewis  E.  Parsons  > 
located  at  Ava,  Mo.,  January  10,  1886,  where  he  has  ever  since  enjoyed  a  lucra- 
tive practice,  In  1896  Mr.  Burkhead  was  a  candidate  before  the  Republican 
Convention  of  the  Fourteenth  Congressional  District,  but  turned  his  forces 
to  Hon.  John  A.  Snider  when  nomination  was  practically  won  for  himself. 
He  headed  his  county  delegation  to  the  Senatorial  Convention  of  the  Nine- 
teenth District,  pledged  to  Hon.  W.  A.  Love  ;  voted  the  delegation  eighty- 
eight  times  for  Love,  and  on  the  eighty-ninth  ballot  was  himself  nominated  by  the  convention.  He  made  a  close 
canvas  of  the  district,  making  eighty-one  speeches.  Four  years  previous  all  the  counties  had  gone  Republican,  giving 
his  predecessor  991  majority.  This  time  three  counties  went  democratic,  and  all  the  others  gave  a  decreased  Repub- 
lican majority,  yet  Mr.  Burkhead  was  elected  by  a  majority  of  2,922  over  the  Democratic- Populist  candidate.  Mr. 
Burkhead  has  taken  an  active  part  in  all  important  measures  before  the  senate,  and  has  also  introduced  a  number  of 
bills  providing  for  needed  amendments  to  the  laws.  He  has  served  on  the  Committees  on  Criminal  Jurisprudence^ 
Insurance  and  Justices  of  the  Peace,  and  has  made  a  very  useful  and  safe  committeeman. 
of  the  Nineteenth  District  are  safe  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Burkhead. 


The  legislative  interests 


SENATOR  CHILD ERS. 


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H.  CHIIvDERS,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  one  of  the  most  sub- 
•  stantial  Democratic  members  of  the  present  State  Senate.  He  is 
thirty-four  years  old  and  was  born  in  Carrolton,  Carrol  county,  Ark.  When 
only  one  year  old  his  father  left  the  former  State  and  came  to  Hickory 
county.  Mo.,  where  the  Senator  grew  to  manhood.  He  first  served  his  time 
in  the  common  public  schools  and  afterward  completed  his  course  in  the 
Rondo,  Mo.,  Academy.  He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Jessie  B.  Nihart, 
who  is  thirty-two  years  old  at  the  present  time  ;  they  have  no  children.  A 
great  deal  of  credit  is  due  to  Senator  Childers.  Born  without  the  advantages 
of  affluent  wealth  with  which  to  perfect  his  ambitions,  he  taught  school  and 
thus  enabled  himself  to  take  up  the  study  of  law.  When  he  was  twenty- 
one  years  old  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  has  been  engaged  in  active  practice  ever  since  at  Hermitage,  the  town 
where  he  resides.  Senator  Childers  is  very  popular  among  his  fellow  members  in  the  Senate.  He  is  agreeable  per- 
sonally and  is  in  every  sense  of  the  word  a  courteous  gentleman.  As  a  legislator  he  is  brainy,  liberal  minded  and  a 
man  who  is  ever  vigilant  of  the  interests  of  the  common  people.  He  was  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Insurance, 
one  of  the  most  important  committees  in  the  Senate  ;  also  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Justices  of  the  Peace. 


SENATOR   VANDIVER. 


SENATOR  CHARLES  H.  VANDIVER,  who  represents  the  Seventeenth  District 
was  born  May  1, 1840,  in  Hampshire  county,  Virginia,  reared  on  a  farm,  and  in 
1861  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  F,  Seventh  Virginia  Cavalry,  C.  S.  A. ; 
served  through  the  war  until  losing  his  right  arm  near  Petersburg,  Va..  June  26, 1864, 
then  Lieutenant,  commanding  his  company.  He  had,  previous  to  this,  been  wounded 
twice— shot  in  the  head  at  Morefield  and  through  the  body  at  Culpepper  Court 
House,  Va. ;  was  in  the  battle  of  Manassas.  Brandy  Station,  Gettysburg,  the  Wilder- 
ness, and  other  principal  engagements  of  Lee  and  Stonewall  Jackson,  up  to  the  date 
of  losing  his  arm.  He  had  many  thrilling  adventures  and  narrow  escapes,  losing 
seven  horses  killed  under  him  in  action.  After  the  war  he  read  law,  but  gave  it  up 
for  the  journalistic  profession,  and  edited  a  paper  at  Keyser,  W.  Va.,  for  ten  years; 
was  Sergeant-at-Arms  of  the  West  Virginia  Senate  in  1883-83;  came  to  Missouri  in  the 
latter  year;  has  since  engaged  in  farming;  was  elected  State  Senator  of  the  Seven- 
teenth District  from  Lafayette  county,  November,  1896. 

On  the  occasion  when  taken  from  the  field  of  active  conflict  as  a  result  of  his 
physical  disability,  the  Lieutenant  Colonel,  Thos.  M.  Marshall,  commanding  the  reg- 
iment, wrote  him  the  following  pathetic  tribute  and  sympathetic  letter— (Colonel  Marshall  was  subsequently  killed  in  battle, 
and  they  never  met  again):— 

Headquarters  Seventh  V.  C,  August  7th,  1864. 
My  Dear  Vandiver:— I  am^unwilling  that  your  connection  with  us  should  be  severed  without  offering  some  tribute  to  worth 
so  unusual  and  services  so  distinguished.  I  canvassed  for  a  little  while  in  my  own  mind  the  propriety  of  going  with  your  com- 
pany and  making  a  more  formal  address  at  the  station,  ere  the  parting  train  should  take  away  from  us  one  who  has  been  so  truly 
esteemed  and  so  highly  prized  as  yourself.  But  in  consideration  of  your  health  and  my  own  relative  affliction  my  mind  has 
concluded  against  it. 


SENATOR   VANDIVER.— Continued. 

The  stern  necessities  of  our  condition  as  soldiers,  who  should  be  ever  ready  to  meet  the  direst  dangers  and  most  cruel  scenes, 
tend  to  harden  our  susceptibilities  and  compel  us  to  control  our  finer  emotions,  so  that  we  become  dull  of  lieart  in  realizing  the 
most  affecting  occurrences,  and  slow  of  speech  to  express  that  which  should  come  from  the  soul,  as  a  free-flowing  fountain. 

I  cannot  bear  to  part  from  one  so  riclily  endowed  by  the  "God  of  Nature"  and  of  "'Grace"  with  the  noblest  qualities  which 
adorn  humanity,  without  endeavoring  to  express  (however  feebly  it  may  be)  my  high  appreciation  of  your  uncommon  merit. 

Severed  from  us,  your  comrades  in  arms,  by  a  dispensation  of  an  "  Allwise  Providence,"  which  has  seen  iit  to  disable  you  from 
active  service  in  your  former  position,  I  feel  satisfied  that  the  "  Spirit  of  Charles  Vandiver  "  will  shape  for  him  in  his  future  life 
some  course  of  noble  usefulness,  which  will  redound  to  the  service  of  liis  country,  the  honor  of  humanity  and  the  glory  of  his  God. 

Though  maimed  by  a  ruthless  foe  and  robbed  of  the  right  arm  of  your  physical  strength,  I  feel  assured  that  the  mighty  soul 
within  what  remains  of  your  manly  form  will  find  some  mode  of  expression  and  will  overcome  by  its  inherent  energy,  strength- 
ened by  tlie  grace  that  is  in  you,  whatever  obstacles  may  beset  your  pathway. 

The  Holy  Scriptures  say  that  "  Greater  is  he  that  ruleth  his  spirit  than  he  that  taketh  a  city."  More  to  be  envied  is  the  man 
possessed  of  the  qualities  witli  which  you  are  endowed  than  the  highest  dignitary  with  widest  sway,  decked  in  the  briglitest  robes 
of  office. 

You  will  not  believe,  my  dear  sir,  that  what  I  have  said  proceeds  from  aught  but  a  sincere  heart,  that  this  is  the  smooth  speech 
of  the  flatterer  and  not  the  utterance  of  a  true  friend  and  hearty  admirer.  Should  it  tend  to  produce  in  you  any  feeling  of  self- 
exaltation,  I  have  only  to  advert  to  that  other  passage  of  Scripture,  '"What  hast  thou,  that  thou  didst  not  receive.  " 

Though  unacquainted  with  her  who  gave  you  birth.  I  yet  feel  in  some  degree  bound  to  her  by  chords  of  sympathy.  Tell 
her  that  in  your  case  there  is  no  cause  for  regret;  that  the  bright  record  you  have  left  behind  you  as  a  brave  Southern  soldier  and 
the  noble  deeds  you  have  wrought  in  your  country's  cause  will  be  more  than  a  compensation  for  the  great  personal  loss  you  have 
met  with. 

And  now,  my  dear  sir,  I  must  bid  you  "  farewell."  If,  in  the  course  of  Providence,  our  future  paths  in  life  should  lie  near  each 
other,  it  would  be  a  source  of  gratitude  and  pleasure  to  me.  Or  should  it  be  in  my  power  at  any  time  to  do  you  a  service,  be 
assured  that  to  none  would  it  be  rendered  with  more  alacrity  and  cheerfulness.  But  should  (what  by  some  is  called )  "  the 
chance  of  war"  cause  us  to  meet  no  more  in  this  life,  I  trust  that  in  a  higher,  holier  and  happier  world  our  acquaintance  will  be 
renewed,  never  to  be  broken.    Truly  your  friend  and  well-wisher, 

THOMAS  MARSHALL,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Seventh  V.  C. 


SENATOR  SEABER. 


A  LFRED  NAPIER  SEABER  is  one  of  the  stanchest  Republican  mem- 
^  *■  bers  of  the  present  State  Senate.  He  was  born  fifty -seven  years  ago 
in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  in  that  State  passed  his  boyhood  days,  and  in  its 
schools  he  received  his  education.  Afterward  he  moved  to  Kentucky,  and 
came  to  this  State  twelve  years  ago. 

Mr.  Seaber  was  united  in  marriage  to  Hannah  E.  Baling,  of  Perry 
county,  Kentucky,  and  is  the  father,  of  four  children.  He  resides  at  Kirks- 
ville,  Adair  county,  and  there  practices  the  profession  of  law. 
He  was  the  candidate  for  Congress  in  the  Tenth  Kentucky  District  in  1880,  and  was  defeated  by  a  small  margin 
by  J.  D.  White;  he  was  Justice  of  the  Peace  from  1873  to  1880;  Special  Examiner  of  Pensions  of  the  United  States 
Pension  Office  from  1882  to  1893,  and  State  Senator  from  1894  to  1898.  Senator  Seaber  is  a  man  who  enjoys  the 
utmost  confidence  and  respect  from  his  fellow  Senators.  He  is  a  courteous  gentleman,  fair  in  controversy,  but  ardent 
in  advocacy  of  any  cause  he  may  espouse.  He  is  a  man  eminently  qualified  for  the  high  position  he  holds.  Is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Committees  on  Appropriations,  Corporations,  and  Penitentiary;  also  author  of  the  new  ballot  and  osteop- 
athy laws.     He  is  also  a  warm  friend  of  our  educational  institutions  and  interested  in  educational  legislation. 


SENATOR  DAVISSON. 


SAMUEL  P.  DAVISSON  is  one  of  the  substantial  members  of  the  pres- 
ent State  Senate.  He  was  born  in  Tippecanoe  county,  Indiana.  His 
father,  J,  C.  Davisson,  died  in  1864,  and  his  mother,  Sallie  A.  Davisson, 
moved  to  Harrison  county,  Mo.,  where  she  reared  a  family  of  seven  children. 
Senator  Davisson  was  educated  in  the  Kirksville  Normal  and  at  Grand  River 
College;  he  has  taught  school  and  been  an  editor  and  merchant,  but  is  now 
engaged  in  farming.  He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Gara  Burrows, 
daughter  of  ex -Congressman  Burrows,  and  is  the  father  of  two  children,  a 
daughter  and  a  son.  He  has  resided  in  this  State  ever  since  1865,  when  he 
left  Indiana.  He  has  been  County  School  Commissioner  for  two  terms — from 
1885  to  1889;  has  been  Representative  for  two  terms  and  is  at  present  a  val- 
ued member  of  the  State  Senate.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  owes  his  political  honors  to  that  party.  In  his 
legislative  career  he  has  been  interested  especially  in  matters  appertaining  to  Pure  Food,  Asylums,  Education  and 
Insurance.*,  He  is  a  gallant  champion  of  the  rights  of  woman,  and  contends  vigorously  for  the  purest  basis  of  society 
that  legislative  safeguards  can  create.  He  takes  a  very  active  part  in  all  the  Senate  discussions,  and  if  matters  do 
not  suit  him  he  is  not  slow  in  raising  a  vigorous  protest.  Taken  all  in  all,  the  Senator  from  Harrison  is  a  man  emi- 
nently qualified  to  represent  his  constituency  in  the  State  Senate,  and  his  official  conduct  is  such  as  to  reflect  credit 
upon  himself  and  his  people. 


SENATOR   WELLS. 


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THIS  short  sketch  is  a  brief  biography  of  William  C.  Wells,  the  Demo- 
cratic Senator  from  the  Third  District.  He  resides  at  Platte  City, 
Platte  county,  and  was  born  in  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  sixty-two  years 
ago.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  the  county  in  which  he  now 
resides.  He  left  Kentucky,  "the  State  of  Colonels,"  and  the  birthplace  of 
our  own  great  and  matchless  ex-Gov.  William  J.  Stone,  in  1843,  and  ever 
since  that  time  has  been  content  to  rest  his  fortunes  in  Old  Missouri,  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Twenty-ninth  and  Thirtieth  General  Assemblies,  which 
has  given  him  an  extensive  experience  in  legislative  affairs;  he  has  also  held 
other  offices  of  a  public  nature  in  Platte  county,  having  been  Public  Adminis- 
trator for  eight  years,  and  Director  of  the  Platte  City  public  schools  nine  years. 
Senator  Wells  is  a  widower,  his  wife,  Miss  Eliza  Jane  Strother,  of  Madison 
county,  Kentucky,  having  died  in  1890,  leaving  five  children,  one  of  whom 

has  since  died;  two  sons  are  engaged  in  the  banking  business  in  Platte  City  at  the  present  time.     Senator  Wells  has 

himself  been  engaged  in  the  banking  business  the  past  eighteen  years,  and  is  at  present  at  the  head  of  the  Wells 

Banking  Company. 

The  Senator  is  a  man  of  genial  disposition  and  winning  manners,  takes  an  active  part  in  all  legislative  matters 

which  come  before  the  body  of  which  he  is  a  member,  and  is  in  every  way  one  of  the  most  substantial  Democratic 

members  in  the  present  State  Senate. 


SENATOR    WILLIAMS. 


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OHN  M.  WILLIAMS  was  born  October  6,  1843,  in  Guernsey  county,  Ohio 

His  parents  were  of  Irish  extraction,  with  an  admixture  of  Welsh  and 

Scotch  blood;  was  born  and  reared  on  a  farm,  and  attended  the  district  schools 

until  seventeen,  when  he  taught  one  term.     August  16,   1862,  he  enlisted  as  a 

private  soldier  in  Co.  E,  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-second  Regiment  of  Ohio 

Infantry.     This  regiment  was  organized  at  Zanesville,  Ohio,  and  first  saw  active 

service  in  Western  Virginia.     A  few  days  after  the  battle  of  Gettysburg  the 

regiment  was  attached  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  with  which  it  remained 

until  after  the  close  of  the  war.     During  the  summer  of  1864  the  Sixth  Army 

Corps,  of  which  his  regiment  was  part,  was  sent  to  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  where  it  took  a  prominent  part  in  the 

victories  gained  by  General  Sheridan.     Mr.  Williams  had  the  good  fortune  to  pass  through  all  these  battles  without 

sickness  or  wounds. 

After  being  discharged  from  the  army — at  which  time  he  had  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain — he  returned 
to  his  Ohio  home,  where  he  attended  school  for  a  year.  He  then  came  to  California,  Mo.,  where  he  has  ever  since 
resided.  He  read  law  while  teaching  school  and  serving  as  Deputy  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1867.  In  October,  1868,  he  married  Miss  Alice  Gray  Howard,  of  Cooper  county;  eight  children,  all  living, 
were  born  to  them.  Mr.  Williams  was  elected  Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Moniteau  county  in  1890  by  a  combination 
between  the  Republicans  and  Populists,  and  by  a  similar  combination  was  elected  Senator  in  1894  over  Dr.  J.  P.  H. 
Gray  (Dem.)  for  the  Fourteenth  District,  composed  of  Camden,  Cooper,  Howard,  Morgan  and  Moniteau  counties. 
Mr.  Williams  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order  and  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 


SENATOR  BREWSTER. 


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HE  following  sketch  is  a  brief  biography  of  one  of  the  strongest  and 
most  substantial  young  men  in  the  State  Senate,  A.  W.  Brewster. 
Senator  Brewster  was  born  at  Austinburg,  Ohio,  and  is  thirty-two  years  old. 
He  has  passed  the  major  portion  of  his  life,  however,  in  the  State  of  Kansas, 
and  received  his  education  in  Washburn  College  at  Topeka.  He  is  a  lawyer 
by  profession,  and  no  man  of  his  age  in  the  State  has  a  brighter  future  in 
his  chosen  line  than  the  Senator  from  St.  Joseph. 

Politically  speaking.  Senator  Brewster  is  a  Republican  of  the  stanchest 

kind  and  is  at  all  times  ready  to  defend  the  principles  of  his  party;  he  is  an 

orator  of  no  mean  qualities,  and  in  this  respect  is  as  powerful  as   any  other 

member  of  the  present  Senate. 

Senator  Brewster  is  thoroughly  courteous  in  his  bearing,  and  no  man  in  the  State  Capital  is  more  popular  than 

he.     The  fact  that  he  has  resided  in  this  State  only  six  years  and  that  he  is  now  in  the  Senate  is  suflScient  guarantee 

of  his  power  and  popularity. 

Senator  Brewster  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Ada  O.  Kanaga.     His  presence  in  the  State  Senate  means  influ- 
ence, and  his  district  could  find  no  more  able  or  more  courteous  gentleman  to  represent  it  in  that  honorable  body. 


SENATOR   ANDERSON. 


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HE  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  rock-ribbed  Democrat,  Senator  Benjamin 
M.  Anderson  from  Boone  county.  Mr.  Anderson  is  a  typical  Missou- 
rian;  he  was  born  and  reared  in  Boone  county  and  has  lived  there  the  greater 
part  of  his  life — he  is  forty-two  years  old.  Mr.  Anderson  has  been  engaged 
in  the  mercantile  business  quite  actively,  but  in  1881  gave  it  up  for  farming 
and  the  raising  of  live  stock  ;  this  he  has  been  engaged  in  upon  quite  an  ex- 
tensive scale.  His  first  political  experience  in  an  official  capacity  may  be 
said  to  date  from  i886,when  he  was  elected  County  Collector  of  Boone  county ; 
he  held  this  office  for  two  terms.  In  1894  he  was  elected  Presiding  Judge  of 
the  county  in  which  he  resides.  He  is  the  son  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  Ander- 
son of  Orange  county;  was  married  in  1882  to  Miss  Fannie  Bowling  of  Colum- 
bia, Missouri.  After  serving  for  two  years  in  the  capacity  of  Presiding  Judge,  his  ambition  took  a  wider  scope  and  he 
was  nominated  and  elected  to  the  State  Senate  from  his  district.  There  is  not  a  man  in  the  present  Senate  who  has 
more  warm  hearted  and  admiring  friends  than  Senator  Ben.  M.  Anderson.  As  a  legislator  he  is  painstaking  and  able. 
He  never  loses  sight  of  the  interests  of  his  constituency,  and  is  always  ready  to  extend  favors  to  others  that  he  may 
gain  points  for  the  people  of  his  district.  But  his  great  popularity  is  due  to  his  charming  personality.  There  is  no 
sturdy  Democrat  in  this  broad  State  who  has  in  his  breast  a  warmer  heart  than  the  Senator  from  Boone,  and  it  is  to 
this  fact  that  he  owes  his  countless  friends.  As  long  as  one  man  lives  who  is  connected  with  the  Senate  of  Missouri, 
he  will  never  forget  the  jovial  and  big  hearted  Anderson  of  Boone  county. 


SENATOR   POWERS. 


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ARVEY  B.  POWERS  is  a  Republican  member  of  the  present  State 
Senate.  He  was  born  in  Illinois,  the  home  of  "  Honest  Old  Abe," 
fifty- four  years  ago.  He  resides  at  Powersville,  Putnam  county,  and  is  a  man 
who  believes  firmly  in  the  principles  of  that  partj'  which  chose  William 
McKinley  as  Executive  for  the  next  four  years.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  has  improved  as  best  he  could  the  opportunities  of  his 
life.  His  profession  is  that  of  minister,  and  for  twenty-seven  years  he  has 
been  a  minister  of  the  M.  E.  Church  ;  he  also  engages  in  farming,  and  as  a 
legislator  is  thoroughly  imbued  with  the  interests  and  welfare  of  the  farming 
classes.  He  has  also  held  other  public  positions,  having  been  elected  Judge 
of  the  County  Court  in  1881  and  1882.  He  served  three  years  in  Company 
"E"  of  the  124th  Illinois  Infantry  during  the  civil  war — from  a  common 
private  to  Second  Lieutenant.  Senator  Powers  is  married  and  has  seven 
children — four  boys  and  three  girls.  It  was  in  1866  that  he  left  Illinois  to  come  to  Missouri  and  cast  his  fortunes  with 
her  hospitable  people.  The  Senator  is  a  man  of  very  agreeable  personality,  though  quiet  in  nature.  He  is  for  strict 
economy  in  all  public  expenditures,  and  never  lets  the  opportunity  escape  to  raise  his  voice  in  behalf  of  the  common 
people.     He  is  one  of  the  most  substantial  members  of  the  present  State  Senate. 


SENATOR    LANCASTER. 


RICHARD  D.  LANCASTER  (Democrat),  of  St.  Louis,  who  represents 
the  Thirty-second  District  of  St.  Louis  City  in  the  State  Senate,  was 
born  in  Ireland,  December  21,  1836;  came  to  this  country  in  1849,  ^'^^  settled 
in  St.  Louis,  where  he  has  since  resided;  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  St,  Louis;  has  been  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  since  i860;  cast  his 
first  vote  in  i860,  voting  for  Stephen  A.  Douglas  for  President;  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  City  Council  in  1866  and  re-elected  in  1868;  was  elected  to 
"the  State  Senate  in  1870  and  served  four  years;  he  was  an  enthusiastic  sup- 
porter of  General  Frank  P.  Blair  for  United  States  Senator  in  1871  and  1873; 
during  his  term  in  the  Senate,  he  took  an  active  and  prominent  part  in  all 
matters  of  legislation,  especially  favoring  the  adoption  of  the  Scheme  and  Charter  for  the  separate  government  of  the 
City  of  St.  Louis;  subsequenty  served  as  a  member  of  the  Democratic  State  Central  Committee  for  four  years,  also  as 
a  member  of  the  City  Democratic  Committee;  was  a  delegate  to  the  National  Democratic  Convention  in  i876,  and  at 
that  time  was  in  advance  of  his  party  in  advocating  the  nomination  of  a  Western  man  for  President;  in  1885,  he  was 
appointed  Surveyor  of  the  Port  by  President  Cleveland,  which  office  he  held  until  the  incoming  of  the  Harrison 
administration  in  1889;  was  again  elected  to  the  State  Senate  in  1894.     Married. 


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SENATOR  GOODYKOONTZ. 


^1  riLLIAM  R.  GOODYKOONTZ,  of  Caledonia,  Washington  county, 
'  '  is  a  Missourian.  Was  born  at  Caledonia,  in  the  county  which  he 
represents,  February  lo,  1852;  received  his  education  in  the  schools  of  Cale- 
donia; was  a  member  of  the  House  of  the  Thirty- third  and  Thirty- fourth 
General  Assemblies;  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  from  the  Twenty-fourth 
Senatorial  District  in  1894.     Democrat.     Ph^ician;  widower. 


SENATOR  LYONS, 


WILLIAM  F.  LYONS,  of  Kansas  City,  who  represents  the  Seventh  District  in  the  Senate,  is  a  lawyer  by  pro- 
fession, and  a  good  one.  He  also  takes  much  interest  in  politics,  and  evidently  stands  high  with  his  party, 
else  he  would  not  have  been  chosen  to  the  responsible  and  honorable  position  he  now  holds.  He  was  born  May  i6, 
1862,  in  Lafayette  county,  Missouri,  and  reared  in  that  county;  educated  at  Emery  and  Henry  college,  Virginia,  and 
at  the  St.  Louis  and  Chicago  Law  Schools,  he  is  thoroughly  equipped  for  the  responsible  duties  to  which  he  has  been 
called.     He  is  a  conspicuous  figure  in  the  Senate  of  the  Thirty -ninth  General  Assembly  of  Missouri. 


SENATOR  LAND  RUM. 


RICHARD  H.  LANDRUM,  (Republican),  Mt.  Vernon,  Lawrence  county, 
who  represents  the  Eighteenth  District  in  the  State  Senate,  was  born 
May  31,  1834,  in  Jefferson  county,  Tenn. ;  educated  in  a  log  school-house  in 
native  county;  came  to  Lawrence  county,  Missouri,  November  i,  1851,  with 
a  widowed  mother,  in  a  two-horse  wagon,  being  forty- two  days  on  the  road; 
financial  condition,  all  told,  on  arrival,  25  cents  in  silver;  hired  out  by  the 
day  or  month  for  support.  In  1853  he  pre-empted  a  section  of  government 
land  and  began  the  improvement  of  the  farm  upon  which  he  lived  until  1887; 
in  the  winter  of  1855  hired  to  E.  G.  Paris,  now  of  Paris  Springs,  Missouri,  to 
drive  hogs  from  Mount  Vernon  to  St.  Louis,  a  distance  of  300  miles,  walking 
the  entire  distance  there  and  back,  the  snow  being  too  deep  on  the  return  trip  for  hoise  or  wagon;  with  the  excep- 
tion of  fall  of  1853  and  summer  of  1854,  when  he  worked  on  a  farm  in  Texas  at  $13  per  month,  has  resided  in  Law- 
rence county  ever  since  coming  to  the  State;  was  enrolled  in  the  Lawrence  county  Home  Guards  May  16,  1861,  being 
elected  Second  Lieutenant,  and  afterward  First  Lieutenant  of  Company  B,  Seventy-sixth  Regiment  E.  M.  M. ;  has 
held  the  offices  of  Constable,  Justice  of  the  Peace,  Judge  of  the  County  Court,  Probate  Court  and  Court  of  Common 
Pleas;  member  of  the  Thirty-seventh  General  Assembly,  and  elected  State  Senator  in  1894;  has  practiced  law  since 
1870;  is  a  relative  of  John  Sevier,  the  first  Governor  of  Tennessee.     Married  April  17,  1856,  to  Susan  E.  Hargrove. 


SENA  TOR  MA  TTHE  WS. 


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HE  following  is  a  brief  sketch  of  Buell  Lyon  Matthews,  a  member  of 
the  present  State  Senate.  He  resides  at  Hermann,  where  he  enjoys 
an  extensive  and  lucrative  practice  as  a  lawyer.  He  is  a  native  Missourian 
and  was  born  in  this  State  thirty-five  years  ago;  he  served  his  apprenticeship 
in  the  common  schools  of  Gasconade  county,  and  afterward  completed  his 
education  in  the  State  University.  In  politics  he  has  always  been  a  stanch 
Republican  and  is  ever  ready  to  fight  the  political  battles  of  that  party.  In 
1888  Senator  Matthews  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  and  re-elected  in  1890; 
in  1892  he  was  elected  Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Gasconade  county  and  in  '94 
was  elevated  to  the  State  Senate  from  the  Twenty-fifth  Senatorial  District,  comprising  the  counties  of  Franklin,  Gas- 
conade and  St.  Louis.  He  is  married  and  has  four  bright  children.  As  a  legislator  he  is  conscientious,  careful  and 
able  and  in  every  way  competent  to  occupy  a  seat  in  the  Senate  of  this  State. 


SENATOR   SCHWEICKARDT. 


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*HIS  cut  is  the  resemblance  of  the  jovial  and  good  natured  Senator, 
Charles  Schweickardt,  from  St.  Louis.  He  is  fifty  years  old  and  was 
born  in  Germany,  the  nation  of  martialed  soldiers  and  the  home  of  the 
world's  greatest  living  statesman.  Prince  Bismarck,  the  man  of  blood  and 
irou.  Until  thirteen  years  of  age  he  lived  in  the  "  Fatherland,"  and  there, 
around  the  old  firesides  with  his  boyish  companions,  listened  to  the  story  of 
Kris  Kringle  and  other  pretty  myths  that  have  been  told  for  centuries.  He 
is  a  Republican  in  politics,  yet  is  liberal  minded  on  all  propositions  and  does 
not  carry  things  to  that  bitter  partisan  degree  or  excess  which  characterizes  so  many  public  men.  He  came  to  this 
State  from  New  York  twenty-two  years  ago  and  has  resided  in  St.  Louis  ever  since;  was  nominated  to  the  State  Senate 
during  his  absence  at  the  National  Liquor  Dealers'  Convention  and  has  been  an  active  man  in  politics  for  twenty 
years.  He  is  a  widower  and  has  two  living  children.  Senator  Schweickardt  is  a  man  who  is  well  liked  by^his  col- 
leagues from  the  fact  of  his  genial  good  nature;  as  a  legislator  he  is  well  informed  and  thoroughly  competent. 


SENATOR  MARTIN. 


THE  following  is  a  brief  sketch  of  Senator  Thomas  C.  Martin,  one  of  the 
stanch  and  able  members  of  the  present  State  Senate.  He  was  born 
in  1837  in  the  State  of  New  York,  at  Albany,  and  in  that  historic  and  great 
Gotham  of  America  grew  to  manhood.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
L  of  that  State,  and  by  being  of  an  observing  nature  has  acquired  a  vast  fund 
|of  general  information  upon  all  practical  subjects.  He  is  an  unqualified 
Republican  and  is  a  strong  man  in  the  minority  in  the  present  Senate.  He 
was  married  to  Miss  Kate  Straut,  of  St.  Louis,  and  is  the  father  of  three  chil- 
dren: two  daughters  and  a  son.  During  the  war  he  was  in  the  transport  service  on  the  Mississippi  river.  He  was  a 
member  from  St.  Louis  to  the  Thirty-fourth,  Thirty-fifth,  Thirty-sixth  and  Thirty-seventh  General  Assemblies  and 
was  elected  State  Senator  from  that  city  in  1896,  from  the  Thirtieth  Senatorial  District.  He  has  been  a  School 
Director  in  St.  Louis  and  also  Deputy  SherifiF  and  Deputy  City  Marshal  of  that  city.  He  is  a  man  who  acts  with 
mature  deliberation  and  is  in  every  sense  of  the  word  competent  to  sit  in  the  Senate  of  this  State. 


SENATOR  MARSHALL. 


JOHN  E.  MARSHALL,  (Democrat),  of  Sikeston,  Scott  county,  Mo., 
was  born  in  that  county  in  1855.  He  was  liberally  educated  in  Charles- 
ton, Mississippi  county,  and  is  ranked  as  a  successful  farmer  and  merchant. 
He  has  been  a  Judge  of  the  County  Court  two  terms,  and  has  also  been 
prominent  in  everything  that  tended  to  promote  the  welfare  and  advance  the 
interests  of  his  fellowmen. 

Mr.  Marshall  possesses  fine  ability,  a  pleasant  address  and  the  utmost 
confidence  of  all  who  have  the  honor  of  his  acquaintance.  He  is  married 
and  is  the  father  of  six  children. 


SENATOR  ORCHARD. 


IN  the  Senate  of  Missouri  there  sits  no  more  perfect  and  courteous  gentle- 
man than  James  Orchard  of  Howell  county.  Senator  Orchard  was  born 
in  Shannon  county,  October^24,  1850;  has  lived  all  his  life  in  the  fifth  State 
of  the  Union.  He  owes  his  present  position  of  honor  to  his  own  persistent 
efforts.  He  educated  himself  in  private  schools  and  having  an  ambition  to 
become  a  lawyer  perfected  himself  in  that  profession.  He  is  a  Democrat  of 
the  truest  blue,  and  is  a  valuable  man  in  the  battles  of  his  party;  he  has  held 
various  oflBces,  such  as  County  Clerk,  Circuit  Clerk,  Probate  Judge  and 
Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Shannon  county — illustrating  his  popularity  among 
the  people  where  he  grew  to  manhood.  In  1894  he  was  elected  to  the  State 
Senate  and  is  at  the  present  time  one  of  the  most  influential  Democratic  members  of  that  body.  He  has  succeeded  in 
passing  a  number  of  important  measures  and  takes  an  active  part  in  all  legislation  that  comes  before  that  body.  He 
is  a  courteous  gentleman  and  numbers  his  friends  by  the  score;  no  man  in  that  high  body  enjoys  a  greater  degree  of 
profound  respect  than  Senator  James  Orchard. 


SENATOR  BALLARD. 


JASPER  N.  BALLARD,  of  Montrose,  Henry  county,  who  represents  the 
Sixteenth  District  in  the  State  Senate,  is  a  native  Missourian,  born 
March  20,  1842,  in  Cooper  county,  and  educated  in  the  common  schools  of 
this  State;  was  Presiding  Judge  of  the  Bates  County  Court  for  five  years; 
represented  the  same  county  in  the  Thirty-first  General  Assembly,  and  was 
in  attendance  upon  the  called  session  of  the  same  Assembly,  which  convened 
April,  1882,  to  re-district  the  State  into  Congressional  Districts;  farmer  and 
banker;  elected  to  the  State  Senate  November  6,  1894.  On  January  8,  1858, 
was  married  to  Josephine  L.  Starke,  of  Cooper  county.  Senator  Ballard  is 
a  Democrat  and  has  made  an  honorable  record  in  the  Senate. 


SENATOR  YOUNG. 


ONE  of  the  strongest  and  handsomest  members  of  the  Upper  House  is 
the  gentleman  who  represents  the  Fifth  District.  He  is  a  resident  of 
Kansas  City,  and  a  lawyer  by  profession.  Mr.  Young  was  born  in  Ray 
county,  Mo  ,  January  20,  1858.  Grew  to  manhood  in  Ray  county;  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  and  at  Kirksville  Normal.  He  was  Mayor  of 
Carrollton  two  terms,  beginning  in  1S83.  Was  Delegate  to  the  National 
Democratic  Convention  in  1888,  at  St.  Louis.  He  is  married  and  has  three 
children,  his  wife  being  Miss  Ida  F.  Gant,  of  Ray  county.  Mr.  Young  is 
Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Criminal  Costs,  also  of  the  Committee  on 
Cities  of  over  35,000,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Committees  on  Judiciary  and 
Eleemosynary  Institutions.  He  is  a  tireless  worker,  and  stands  high  among 
his  fellow-members. 


SENATOR  MOTT. 


FREDERICK  W.  MOTT,  of  St.  Louis,  representing  the  Twenty-ninth 
Senatorial  District  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly,  is  one  of  the 
most  useful  and  popular  members  of  the  Legislature.  He  is  forty-seven 
years  old,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  but  left  there  at  the  age  of  six  years, 
when  he  removed  to  Carlinville,  111.,  where  he  attended  the  common  schools 
and  Blackburn  University.  In  1865  removed  to  St.  Louis  and  attended  the 
High  School.  He  was  married  at  an  early  age  to  Miss  Isabella  Rutherfurd, 
whose  grandmother  was  a  first  cousin  to  Sir  Walter  Scott.  To  this  union 
were  born  two  sons,  one  of  whom  lost  his  life  in  an  attempt  to  rescue  a 
drowning  companion.  Mr.  Mott  has  for  many  years  been  prominent  in  St. 
Louis  as  a  real  estate  and  financial  agent,  and  has  taken  great  interest  and 
an  active  part  in  politics.  He  is  an  adherent  of  the  Republican  party,  and 
was  for  eight  years  Secretary  and  member  of  the  State  Committee,  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Legislature  for  the  years  1879-80,  also  for  1881-82,  at  which 
time  he  fought  through  the  Street  Railway  Bill,  and  built  the  road  from 
Carondelet  to  Sixth  street.  For  these  services  he  was  specially  banquetted 
at  Cherokee  Garden  with  a  number  of  his  colleagues.  He  was  Water  Rates 
Commissioner  for  St.  Louis  from  1883  to  1887;  was  a  member  of  the  National 
Convention  in  1884  which  nominated  Hon.  Jas.  G.  Blaine.  In  1895  and  1897  he 
served  in  the  State  Senate,  vice  James  McGinnis,  deceased,  and  succeeded  in 
passing  many  important  measures.  During  this  time  he  introduced  fourteen  bills,  ten  of  which  became  laws.  He 
was  put  on  the  Committee  on  Appropriations,  also  on  Insurance,  and  three  Conference  Committees  by  a  Democratic 
Governor.  In  the  present  Senate  he  has  served  ably  on  the  Appropriations  Committee,  the  Committee  on  Eleemosy- 
nary Institutions,  on  Public  Health,  on  Printing,  and  on  two  Conference  Committees.  He  has  introduced  and  passed 
the  bill  known  as  the  St  Louis  Primary  Law,  also  the  Bill  on  Charities  and  Corrections,  and  a  concurrent  resolution 
to  enable  the  City  of  St.  Louis  to  increase  her  indebtedness  ten  million  dollars  for  the  purpose  of  restoring  the  hos- 
pital wrecked  by  last  year's  cyclone,  and  to  complete  the  city  building  and  make  other  improvements.  Senator  Mott 
stands  high  with  his  party,  and  at  the  same  time  commands  the  respect  and  enjoys  the  friendship  of  his  political 
opponents.     He  is  a  most  useful  and  capable  public  servant. 


SENATOR  DRUM. 


1"^  OBERT  DRUM,  of  Marble  Hill,  Bollinger  county,  who  represents  the 


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Twenty-first  District,  composed  of  the  counties  of  Bollinger,  Butler, 
Cape  Girardeau,  Carter,  Ripley  and  Wayne,  is  a  native  Missourian,  born  in 
Cape  Girardeau  country,  April  ii,  1845;  educated  in  the  common  schoolsl 
served  six  months  in  the  Eighth  Regiment  of  the  Provisional  Enrolled  Mis- 
souri Militia  in  1863;  represented  Bollinger  county  in  the  Thirtieth  and 
Thirty-first  General  Assemblies;  elected  County  Treasurer  in  1888,  and  State 
Senator  in  1892.     Merchant;  married. 


SENATOR  MADISON. 


ROBERT  G.  MADISON,  of  Festus,  Jefferson  county,  who  represents  the 
Twenty-sixth  Senatorial  District,  composed  of  the  counties  of  Jeffer- 
son, Ste.  Genevieve,  St.  Francois  and  Perry,  is  a  Democrat  and  a  native  of 
Missouri;  born  in  Ste.  Genevieve  county,  educated  in  the  common  schools 
and  State  University;  was  Sheriff  and  Collector  of  Ste.  Genevieve  county 
four  years,  and  represented  the  county  in  the  Twenty-seventh  General  As- 
sembly; removed  to  JeflFerson  county,  where  he  has  served  as  Presiding  Judge 
and  Associate  Justice  of  the  County  Court  for  the  past  ten  years;  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  State  Grange  in  Ste.  Genevieve  county,  and  President  of  the  Jef- 
ferson county  F.  and  L.  U.  four  years;  has  been  identified  with  all  farmers' 
organizations,  either  ofl&cially  or  otherwise.     Married. 


SENATOR  KLENE. 


BENJAMIN  J.  KLENE,  of  St.  Louis,  who  represents  the  Thirty-fourth 
Senatorial  District,  was  born  July  4,  1858,  at  Sparta,  111.;  received  his 
education  partly  at  Sparta,  and  at  St.  Louis,  being  a  graduate  of  the  law  de- 
partment of  the  Washington  University;  was  first  lieutenant  Co.  "C,"  gtk 
111.  Nat.  Guard;  served  as  City  Clerk  of  his  native  town;  came  to  Missouri! 
to  live  in  1885;  was  elected  State  Senator  in  1894.     Married. 


SENATOR  BUSCHE. 


y^~>HARLES  F.  BUSCHE,  who  represents  the  Thirty-third  District,  of  St. 
^— -^  Louis  City,  in  the  State  Senate,  is  a  Republican,  and  one  of  the  lead- 
ers of  that  honorable  body. 

Senator  Busche  was  born  in  Hanover,  Germany,  January  17,  1857.  He 
came  to  America  in  i860,  landing  at  New  Orleans;  in  1864  came  to  Missouri, 
and  has  resided  in  St.  Louis  ever  since.  He  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  St.  Louis,  and  at  a  commercial  college. 

In  1888  Mr.  Busche  was  elected  to  the  Senate,  and  in  1892  he  was 
re-elected.  He  is  a  wholesale  baker,  and  Vice-President  of  the  Confectioner 
&  Baker  Publishing  Co.     He  was  married  in  1880  to  Miss  Bertha  Jansen. 


SENATOR  MORTON. 


IN  the  Senate  of  Missouri  there  is  no  abler  or  more  highly  respected  young 
man  than  John  F.  Morton,  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  resides  at 
Richmond,  Ray  county;  he  was  born  at  New  Orleans,  but  passed  his  child- 
hood days  and  grew  to  manhood  in  the  great  old  State  whose  people  he  is 
now  serving  in  the  capacity  of  a  State  Senator.  He  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  Richmond,  ^lissouri,  and  afterward  completed  his  educational 
Itraining  at  Portsmouth,  Ohio. 

Senator  Morton  is  a  lawyer  and  has  a  brilliant  future  in  his  chosen  pro- 
fession. Up  to  this  time  he  has  escaped  the  snares  of  Cupid,  but  it  is  not  the 
purpose  of  this  biographer  to  give  bond  for  his  continuance  in  this  condition 
for  any  great  length  of  time.  Senator  Morton  was  a  member  of  the  Thirty-fourth  and  Thirty-fifth  General  Assemblies, 
and  was  Speaker  pro  tern  of  the  Thirty-fifth.  In  1894  he  was  elected  to  the  honorable  body  of  which  he  is  now  a 
member.  Senator  Morton  is  an  uncompromising  Democrat  and  takes  an  active  part  in  the  Senate  discussions,  and 
is  always  listened  to  with  the  greatest  respect.  His  friends  hope  to  see  him  in  Congress  at  no  very  distant  day,  and 
this  wish  has  an  extensive  probability  of  becoming  true.  He  is  young,  able  and  ambitious,  and  has  a  future  that 
promises  to  be  brilliant  and  successful. 


SENATOR  MILLER. 


ELIJAH  MILIvER,  who  represents  the  First  Senatorial  District  in  the 
Upper  House  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembl)',  is  one  of  the  most 
experienced,  safe  and  competent  legislators  in  that  able  body.  He  was  born  in 
Buchanan  county,  Missouri,  May  7,  1839,  ^^d  grew  up  in  that  county  and  in 
the  neighboring  county  of  Worth.  His  residence  has  been  for  many  years 
at  Denver,  Worth  county,  where  he  has  a  successful  practice  as  a  lawyer. 
He  is  a  thorough  Democrat  in  politics.  Has  served  his  people  as  Constable, 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  County  Assessor  and  two  terms  in  the  Legislature,  one  of 
which  was  the  revising  session  of  1S89.  In  the  House  he  won  distinction  for 
his  careful  and  able  services  on  the  Committees  on  Accounts,  Clerical  Force 
and  Criminal  Jurisprudence,  and  made  such  a  good  record  generally  that  his 
people  concluded  he  was  good  enough  to  send  to  the  Senate.  During  the 
Civil  War  he  served  three  years  in  the  L^nion  army.  Company  E,  Fifth  Infantry,  California  Volunteers.  Mr.  Miller 
is  married,  his  wife  being  Miss  Elizabeth  Bridges,  of  Worth  county,  and  to  this  union  have  been  born  six  children, 
four  of  whom  are  living.  Mr.  Miller  represents  some  of  the  best  and  most  important  counties  in  North  Missouri 
and  does  it  so  faithfully  and  well  that  each  and  every  citizen  of  those  counties  ought  to  feel  proud  of  him.  He  consumes 
very  little  time  in  debating  for  the  sake  of  show,  but  gets  right  down  to  business  with  an  earnestness  and  judgment 
which  insures  the  best  results  in  legislation.  And  he  commands  the  esteem,'  confidence  and  friendship  of  men  of  all 
parties. 


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SENATOR    GRAY. 


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^  NE  of  the  shrewdest  and  ablest  Republicans  that  ever  sat  in  the  Senate 
of  this  State  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  the  wiry  little  Howard 
Gray,  from  Jasper  county.  Senator  Gray  was  born  June  5,  1862,  in  Dela- 
ware county,  Iowa,  and  came  to  Missouri  in  1870.  He  was  educated  at  the 
Fort  Scott  Normal  school  and  is  a  man  of  the  highest  polish  and  educational 
attainment — not  that  his  educational  advantages  were  the  best  the  country 
affords,  yet  his  natural  inborn  shrewdness  and  quickness  gives  him  great 
superiority.  Senator  Gray  is  a  lawyer  by  profession  and  has  an  extensive 
and  lucrative  practice  in  Jasper  county.  He  takes  a  leading  hand  in  all 
legislation  which  comes  before  the  Senate  and  though  he  is  a  Republican  he 
is  broad  and  liberal  minded  and  is  much  admired  by  his  associates  irrespective  of  party,  and  it  is  his  inherent  quick- 
ness and  wit  that  makes  him  a  worthy  foe  and  often  raises  a  good  round  of  hearty  applause  at  the  expense  of  some 
Senator  with  whom  he  happens  to  be  contending.  Senator  Gray  is  a  gentleman  of  that  broad  guage  whom  Democrats 
admire  as  weU  as  Republicans.     He  is  a  married  man. 


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REV.    GIVEN. 


HERE  are  few  men  in  the  State  more  amiable  or  gentlemanly  than 
Rev.  John  C.  Given,  the  Chaplain  of  the  State  Senate.  He  is  a  resi- 
dent of  Jefferson  City,  and  was  born  fifty-one  years  ago  in  Bath  county, 
Virginia.  He  passed  the  greater  part  of  his  boyhood  days  and  grew  into 
manhood  in  Virginia  and  Illinois;  he  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
mostly;  however,  attended  several  private  schools.  His  vocation  in  life  is 
to  plead  with  sinful  humanity  and  to  implore  it  from  its  way  of  error.  He  is 
a  minister  of  the  M.  E-  Church,  South;  he  became  converted  in  1866  and 
entered  the  Southwest  Missouri  Conference  in  1876.  Rev.  Given  has  been 
married  twice;  first  to  Miss  Mary  A.  Rider,  of  his  native  State,  and  after- 
ward to  Mrs.  Sevilla  Corkran.  He  is  the  father  of  two  bright  children.  Rev.  Given's  popularity  is  due  principally 
to  his  charming  personality;  he  has  the  mixing  qualities  of  a  veteran  politician,  and  it  is  to  this  fact  that  he  owes  his 
election  as  Chaplain.  However,  no  minister  in  Missouri  could  invoke  Heaven's  blessings  upon  the  august  State 
Senate  in  a  more  reverential  manner  than  Rev.  John  C.  Given. 


SPEAKER  OF  THE  HOUSE. 


JOHN  W.  FARRIS,  Speaker  of  the  House  and  member  of  the  Thirty- 
ninth  General  Assembly  from  Laclede  county,  is  one  of  the  best  known 
men  in  the  State.  He  took  the  initiative  step  in  organizing  the  silver  forces 
of  Missouri  last  year  and  immediately  sprang  into  prominence  as  an  able  and 
efificient  organizer  and  trusted  leader.  "When  the  Legislature  convened  it 
was  evident  that  Mr.  Farris  was  still  the  idol  of  Missouri  Democracy;  he  was 
elected  Speaker  of  the  House  with  scarcely  any  opposition. 

He  presided  with  ability,  tact  and  discretion  unexcelled  by  any  other 
man  who  ever  filled  the  chair  of  Presiding  Officer  of  the  House;  his  rulings 
were  always  fair  and  satisfactory,  while  the   manner  in  which  he  expedited 

business  excited  the  admiration  of  even  his  political  opponents;  he  was  born  January  20,1846,  in  Marion  county, 
Illinois,  and  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  State;  located  in  Laclede  county.  Mo.,  in  1867,  and  has  been 
repeatedly  honored  by  the  people  of  that  county;  was  elected  County  Assessor  of  Laclede  county  in  1870;  Circuit 
Clerk  in  1874;  Prosecuting  Attorney  in  1890;  in  1882  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  where  he  received  his  first  Legis- 
lative experience,  which  has  served  him  to  such  good  purpose  in  the  House.  He  is  one  of  Lebanon's  leading  attor- 
neys and  is  devoted  to  his  profession;  was  married  to  Miss  Belle  Brodsbard,  Lebanon,  Missouri,  November  26,  1878. 
Mr.  Farris  is  prominently  mentioned  as  a  candidate  for  Governor  of  Missouri  in  1900.  His  spotless  reputation, 
coupled  with  his  trustworthiness  and  ability  would  make  him  one  of  the  strongest  Executive  officers  that  ever  graced 
the  highest  office  of  Missouri. 


GEORGE  T.  LEE,  SPEAKER  PRO  TEM. 


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'  EW  men  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  have  more  to  do  with 
shaping  the  political  policy  of  its  Democratic  members  than  George 
T.  Lee,  the  Representative  from  Carter  county.  Mr.  Lee  was  born  fifty- 
three  years  ago  in  Jefferson  county,  Missouri,  and  went  through  the 
ordinary  rudiments  of  the  common  schools  and  afterward  completed  his 
education  in  Arcadia  College  in  Iron  county,  this  State.  He  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Anna  Leeper,  the  daughter  of  Col.  W.  T.  Leeper,  of  Mill 
Springs,  Wayne  county,  Mo.,  and  four  children  blessed  their  union — three 
girls  and  one  boy;  death,  however,  claimed  the  boy  and  one  of  the  girls, 
thus  leaving  two  who  minister  to  the  wants  of  father  and  mother  and  weave 
more  pleasantness  and  sunshine  into  life.     He  represented  Wayne  county 

in  the  Legislature  of  this  State  in  1882  and  1S86  and  Carter  county  in  1890  and  1896.  His  long  service  has  given  him 
a  career  of  legislative  experience  that  is  probably  superior  to  that  of  any  man  who  is  serving  in  the  present  Assem- 
bly. Mr.  Lee  is  a  man  of  frank  disposition  and  an  unfearing  and  uncompromising  friend  of  the  people's  interests. 
He  is  an  apt  debater'  and  a  measure  which  does  not  meet  with  his  approval  has  a  hard  road  to  travel  when  it  comes 
before  the  august  members  of  the  Thirty-ninth  Assembly.  Unlike  many  men  of  prestige  and  influence  which 
means  so  much  in  a  body  of  legislators,  his  help  cannot  be  secured  for  any  pet  measure  unless  it  meets  with  his 
approval  in  every  particular.  There  is  in  all  this  broad  State  not  one  man  who  is  a  more  unterrified  Democrat  than 
"Lee  of  Carter."  In  his  own  language,  he  is  a  "moss-back  Democrat"  of  the  old  school — a  man  who  has  no 
patience  with  the  superfluous  air  and  red  tape  of  the  modern  politician,  which,  after  all,  is  little  else  than  dema- 
gogy. He  is  warm  hearted,  frank,  and  a  man  who  wears  the  toga  of  leadership  because  his  own  imperial  manhood 
character  and  ability  entitle  him  to  it. 


GEORGE    T.   COLLINS. 


NO  man  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  plays  a  more  important 
part  in  the  Legislative  proceedings  than  George  T.  Collins,  the  Rep- 
resentative from  Scotland  county.  Mr.  Collins  was  born  in  the  above 
county,  September  lo,  1842,  educated  in  its  schools,  and  in  fact  has  lived 
there  the  greater  part  of  his  life.  By  occupation  he  is  a  lawyer  and  farmer, 
in  which  profession  and  vocation  he  has  been  eminently  successful.  In  all 
Missouri  there  isn't  a  better  Democrat  and  a  more  thorough  and  courteous 
gentleman  than  the  member  from  Scotland  ;  and  no  man  in  the  present 
Assembly  enjoys  a  greater  degree  of  admiration  and  respect  from  his  fellow 
members  than  he.  Having  served  in  the  Thirty-fourth  and  Thirty-fifth  Gen- 
eral Assemblies,  he  has  had  a  long  career  of  legislative  experience  that 
makes  him  an  invaluable  member.     Mr.  Collins  was  united  in  the  bonds  of 

matrimony  to  Miss  Catherine  Gorin,  of  his  native  county,  but  has  no  children;  he  lives  on  his  farm  but  keeps  a  law 
oflRce  in  Memphis.  In  the  Thirty-fifth  General  Assembly  Mr.  Collins  was  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Internal 
Improvements  ;  in  this,  the  Thirty-ninth,  he  is  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Criminal  Costs  and  Fees.  During  the 
temporary  organization  he  was  chosen  and  presided  through  that  usually  tumultuous  caucus  with  much  deliberation 
and  ease;  he  is  a  man  with  a  determined  will,  an  excellent  parliamentarian,  and  therefore  makes  a  model  presiding 
officer.  He  is  at  present  Chairman  of  the  Democratic  House  caucus.  Mr.  Collins  does  not  make  it  a  rule  to  speak 
upon  every  proposition  which  comes  up,  but  when  he  does  speak  the  members  give  him  the  closest  attention.  Per- 
sonally, he  is  a  courteous  gentleman  ;  politically,  an  honest  fighter  and  an  uncompromising  Democrat.  To  no  man 
belongs  the  crown  of  leadership  more  justly  than  to  this  man  whom  the  citizens  of  Scotland  county  have  seen  fit  to 
send  to  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


CHIEF  CLERK  OF    THE  HOUSE. 


CHARLES  W.  GREEN,  the  Chief  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives, is  by  birth  an  Ohioan,  but  a  Missourian  by  adoption.  His 
home  is  Brookfield,  Linn  county,  where  he  is  president  and  editor  of  The 
Brookfield  Argus,  which  he  established  fourteen  years  ago. 

Mr.  Green  takes  much  interest  in  politics,  and  never  fails  to  be  a  dele- 
gate from  his  county  to  the  Democratic  State  Conventions.  He  has,  in  addi- 
tion to  having  been  elected  to  the  oflSce  of  Chief  Clerk  of  the  Thirty-ninth 
Assembly,  received  other  honors.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Missouri  World's 
Fair  Commission,  and  afterward  at  Pertle  Springs  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  Democratic  State  Central  Committee.  He  was  also  a  delegate  to  the 
National  Democratic  Convention  at  Chicago.  Mr.  Green  is  probably  the  best  known  man  in  North  Missouri.  He  is 
thirty-five  years  of  age.  His  lamented  wife,  Nellie,  who  departed  this  life  December  lo,  1896,  bore  him  one  child, 
the  beautiful  Frances,  now  in  her  eighth  year,  and  who  is  her  father's  hope  and  pride. 

Chief  Clerk  Green  is  of  a  genial  disposition,  always  loyal  to  his  friends,  and  never  knows  defeat.     As  a  newspaper 
man  and  versatile  editorial  writer  he  stands  near  the  top  of  the  ladder. 


THOMAS  M.    SPOFFORD. 


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»HOMAS  M.  SPOFFORD  is,  in  every  way,  one  of  the  leaders  in  the 
Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  He  is,  at  the  present  time,  a  resi- 
dent of  Kansas  City.  He  was  born  in  Tennessee  thirty-four  years  ago;  how- 
ever, in  his  boyhood  days,  he  moved  to  New  Orleans,  La.,  and  there  grew  to 
manhood.  He  was  educated  in  the  University  High  School  of  New  Orleans, 
and  afterward  attended  the  Columbia  College  of  New  York  City,  from  which 
great  institution  of  learning  he  graduated  in  the  law.  lu  1887  he  left  Lou- 
isiana and  came  to  Kansas  City,  and  there  immediately  became  active  and 
prominent  in  political  and  legal  circles.  In  the  recent  election  he  was 
chosen  by  acclamation  as  the  legislative  candidate  from  the  Fourth  District, 
and,  although  it  was  carried  for  McKinley  and  the  other  Republicans  on  the 
ticket,  Mr.  SpofFord  came  out  victorious,  thus  attesting  his  popularity  and 
political  strength  ;  he  takes  an  active  part  in  the  House  discussions,  and 
being  an  able  speaker,  always  takes  care  of  himself.  He  is  a  Democrat  of 
the  most  pronounced  type.  His  father  was  a  member  of  the  United  States  Senate,  and  thus  he  comes  to  his  political 
inclinations  through  the  natural  avenues.  As  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Appropriatic)ns  he  makes  a  highly  com- 
petent man  in  that  very  responsible  position.  Mr.  Spofford  is  a  single  man — why,  we  leave  it  to  the  gods  to  explain. 
He  is  a  man  of  charming  personality,  and  counts  for  his  friends  all  who  have  been  able  to  form  his  acquaintance. 
Since  he  has  become  firmly  settled  in  Missouri  politics,  and  formed  the  acquaintance  of  the  men  who  make  laws  in 
Missouri,  it  is  a  settled  fact  that  he  can  have  a  political  future  in  this  State  if  he  so  desires.  An  able  speaker,  a  man 
of  unquestioned  ability  and  with  a  host  of  friends—  no  man  with  political  ambitions  could  desire  a  happier  prospect. 


COL.  JOHN  T.   CRISP. 


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^  NE  of  the  most  picturesque  and  interesting  men  that  ever  sat  in  the 
historic  Hall  of  the  House  of  Representatives  in  Missouri,  is  Col. 
John  T.  Crisp.  He  was  born  in  Cass  county,  April  3,  1838;  educated  at 
Goshen's  Academy,  Pleasant  Hill,  the  schools  of  Chapel  Hill  and  the  State 
University;  served  as  Engrossing  Clerk,  Assistant  Secretary  and  Secretary  of 
the  State  Senate  in  1859,  i860  and  1861,  respectively,  and  has  called 
Missouri  his  home  all  his  life — he  is  a  typical  Missourian;  not  a  specimen  of 
the  modern  type,  but  one  of  those  old  time,  big  hearted,  deep  and  wide 
souled  men  who  were  all  great  and  whose  every  act  and  action  was  an 
emphasis  on  manhood  and  a  rebuke  to  littleness.  We  could  say  much  of 
Col.  Crisp  as  to  the  different  positions  he  has  held,  for  he  has  been  in  poli- 
tics all  his  life,  but  we  prefer  to  talk  of  him  as  a  man.  Ordinary  men  are  as 
plentiful  in  this  world  as  the  insects  in  a  tropic  clime;  but  truly  great  and 
brilliant  men  are  lone  milestones  which  only  here  and  there  loom  up  majestic  in  civilization's  pathway. 
Col.  Crisp  is  an  orator  of  the  old  school;  again  I  say  he  is  not  that  modern  parody  on  oration  which  in  aesthetic 
unnaturalness  makes  its  superfluous  plea,  but  when  he  speaks  and  you  look  upon  his  majestic  form,  pulsated  by 
thoughts  that  come  quick  and  fast,  it  is  then  that  you  say  to  yourself  that  the  Bentons  and  Websters  are  not  yet  all 
extinct;  he  is  not  an  ordinary  man,  he  is  brilliant.  With  a  manner  that  is  terrible  in  its  power  and  rhetoric  as  beauti- 
ful as  that  of  an  Ingersoll,  he  sweeps  all  opposition  before  him;  and  as  you  look  upon  the  old  veteran  a  pique  of 
sadness  comes  to  you — instead  of  being  in  the  General  Assembly  he  should  sit  in  the  National  House  of  Represent- 
atives or  be  fighting  the  battles  of  Democracy  on  the  floor  of  the  United  States  Senate — but  the  treachery  of  political 
demogogues  and  the  dagger  of  political  cut-throats  have  kept  Col.  Crisp  from  his  just  deserts  and  his  true  sphere.  But 
when  the  battle  of  this  life  is  over  and  he  has  gone  to  a  haven  where  perfidy  and  dishonesty  are  unknown,  even 
a  wicked  and  insincere  world  cannot  help  saying  that  John  T.  Crisp  was  a  great  and  brilliant  man. 


WILLIAM  J.  McPHERSON, 


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ILLIAM  J.  M'PHERSON,  who  is  represented  in  this  cut,  is  one  of 
the  men  who  helps  fight  the  battles  of  the  Republican  minority  in 
the  present  General  Assembly.  He  is  thirty-five  years  old  and  was  born  in 
the  State  of  Indiana,  and  is  a  man  who  has  spent  his  time  in  several  of 
America's  great  States.  He  came  to  St.  Louis  in  1890  and  has  resided  there 
ever  since.  He  was  educated  at  Howard  Lake,  Minnesota,  and  is  a  man  of 
well-rounded,  general  information.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Pearletta 
Grimes,  of  Illinois,  and  is  the  father  of  two  bright  little  daughters— Grace, 
aged  9,  and  Edith,  7.  In  politics  he  has  always  been  an  ardent  Republican 
and  is  a  man  who  takes  an  active  and  aggressive  part  in  the  House  discus- 
sions. He  represents  the  First  St.  Louis  Legislative  District  and  is  a  painter 
and  decorator  by  trade.  He  introduced  a  bill  into  the  present  Assembly 
demanding  that  the  State  Board  of  Health  examine  all  reformatory  or  insti- 
tutions of  a  like  nature,  and  is  very  warm  in  its  advocacy.  He  also  is  the  projector  of  a  bill  furnishing  free  text  books 
to  poor  children,  and  a  measure  on  compulsory  education.  All  of  these  are  meritorious  measures,  and  have  a  fitting 
champion  in  the  person  of  Mr.  McPherson.  He  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  ablest  and  most  aggressive  men  in  the 
Republican  minority  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


WALLACE  J.  DAVIS. 


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'ALLACE  J.  DAVIS  represents  Pike  county— the  old  "State  of  Pike" 
-the  ninth  in  order  of  organization,  and  the  tenth  in  point  of 
wealth  and  population  in  Imperial  Missouri.  He  was  born  April  14,  1850, 
near  Columbia,  Boone  county,  Missouri,  and  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  the  printing  office.  He  was  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Colum- 
bia Sentinel  from  1876  to  1884,  of  the  Moberly  Daily  Headlight  from  1884  to 
1889;  of  the  Fayette  Banner  from  1889  to  1893;  since  January  4,  1893,  has 
been  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Bowling  Green  Post.  He  served  two  years 
as  City  Clerk  of  Columbia,  and  three  years  as  Justice  of  the  Peace  at  Bowling 
Green.  In  politics,  a  Democrat;  in  religion,  a  Southern  Methodist.  In  the 
Thirty- ninth  General  Assembly  Mr.  Davis  served  on  the  following  Com- 
mittees: Appropriations,  Accounts,  Municipal,  Corporations,  Clerical 
Force,  Joint  Committee  on  Printing,  and  was  Chairman  of  a  Special 
Committee  to  examine  and  report  upon  the  Armory,  He  is  modest  in  man- 
ner, but  energetic  and  determined  in  the  discharge  of  public  duties.  Though 
closely  allied  to  the  old  Slave-holding  Confederate  Democracy  of  Missouri,  he 
is  liberal  and  progressive  in  spirit,  and  seldom  alludes  to  partisan  politics  in 
discussing  public  questions.  His  friends  in  the  House  are  numerous,  and  of  all  political  parties.  He  has  gained  some 
notoriety  on  account  of  his  bill  amending  the  law  in  regard  to  murder  trials,  permitting  the  jury  to  assess  the  punish- 
ment at  death  or  life  imprisonment.  He  has  a  literary  turn  of  mind,  and  has  written  "The  Land  of  Pike,"  a 
companion  poem  to  the  old  song  of  Joe  Bowers;  has  also  introduced  a  bill  to  erect  a  monument  to  Joe  Bowers.  Mr. 
Davis  is  seventh  in  direct  descent  from  a  Scotchman  named  Davis,  who  settled  in  New  England  nearly  three  hundred 
years  ago.  His  father,  Linnaus  Davis,  was  first  cousin  to  the  famous  Bishop  Marvin.  His  mother,  Nancy  Weaver, 
was  born  at  Tuscaloosa,  Alabama,  and  was  related  to  the  Jordans  of  that  State  and  Tennessee.  May  27,  1880,  Mr. 
Davis  married  Alice  L.  Ustick,  of  Dover,  Lafayette  county,  Missouri,  descendant  of  the  Usticks  of  England.  They 
have  one  son,  Kenneth  Forrest,  born  in  Columbia,  December  5,  1881.  An  only  daughter,  Mabel  Claire,  born  March 
24,  1885,  a  very  sweet  little  girl,  died  at  the  age  of  one  year. 


FRANK  HENRY  KOCH. 


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'RANK  HENRY  KOCH  represents  the  Fourth  Legislative  District  of 
the  city  of  St.  Louis  in  the  present  House  of  Representatives.  He 
resides  at  1400  Cass  Ave  and  was  born  and  reared  in  the  city  whose  fittest  title 
is  "Queen  of  the  West. "  He  was  educated  in  the  German  Protestant  Church 
school  and  is  at  present  engaged  in  the  retail  wine  and  liquor  business.  He 
is  a  widower;  was  married  to  Miss  Cora  Rowberry  of  the  city  in  which  he 
resides,  but  death  claimed  her,  leaving  Mr.  Koch  alone  with  two  daughters, 
who  make  life  cheerful  and  pleasant  for  him. 

In  politics  Mr.  Koch  is  an  ardent  Republican  and  believes  sincerely  that 
the  principles  of  that  party  mean  the  greatest  amount  of  good  to  the  greatest 
number  of  the  whole  people.     He  has  never  held  any  political  office  except 
the  present  one,  yet  in  this  capacity  he  serves  in  a  thoroughly  competent   manner  and  is  to  all  intents  well  quali- 
fied to  represent  his  constituency  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


JAMES  E.    VANDIVEER. 


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AMES  E.  VANDIVEER  is  one  of  the  old  school  true  and  tried  Demo- 
crats.  Forty-seven  years  ago  he  was  born  in  Hickory  county,  Mis- 
souri, and  up  to  this  time  has  not  seen  fit  to  leave  the  grand  old  State  of  his 
birth.  He  was  raised  in  the  above  county,  Vernon  and  in  Cedar,  where  he 
resides  at  the  present  time,  and  whose  people  he  represents  in  the  Thirty- 
ninth  General  Assembly. 

Mr.  Vandiveer  was  educated  in  the  common  public  schools  of  the  State, 
but  by  being  a  close  and  energetic  student,  has  succeeded  in  providing  him- 
self with  a  vast  store  of  general  and  practical  information.     In  politics  he 
is  a  Democrat  of  the  truest  blue,  and  not  only  votes  the  ticket  but  works  for  it  like  a  Trojan.     He  has  been  Township 
Collector  in  his  county,  Deputy  Sheriff  and  Deputy  Collector — the  latter  two  terms  each.     He  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Lizzie  C.  Still,  of  Johnson  county,  and  has  three  children — two  daughters  and  oae  son. 

Mr.  Vandiveer  is  Chairman  of  the  Engrossing  Committee  of  the  House,  and  is,  in  every  way,  one  of  the  most 
influential  members  in  the  present  Assembly.  He  takes  an  active  part  in  the  House  discussions  and  is  respected  and 
enjoys  the  good  will  of  all  his  associates. 


HON.  SAM  M.  PICKLER. 


KIRKSVILLE,  the  educational  center  of  North  Missouri,  is  the  home  of  tlie  sub- 
ject of  this  brief  sketch,  who  resides  in  a  mansion-like  dwelling  in  the  south, 
west  suburbs  of  that  beautiful  prairie  city,  with  a  happy  family  consisting  of 
a  wife.  Mary  M.,  and  daughter,  Ethel  C.  Pickler.  Mr.  Pickler  owns  and  operates, 
under  his  personal  direction,  one  of  the  largest  mercantile  establishments  in  Kirks- 
ville.  He  was  born  in  Washington  county,  Indiana,  in  1846,  and  when  he  was  six 
years  of  age,  his  parents  moved  to  Iowa,  spending  several  years  in  the  Buckeye 
State,  and  a  short  time  after  the  close  of  the  Civil  War  moved  to  Kirksville,  Missouri. 
In  1867  Prof.  Joseph  Baldwin  opened  a  private  Normal  School  and  Mr.  Pickler  was 
among  his  first  pupils.  He  improved  every  moment  of  time,  making  such  rapid  prog- 
ress that  not  many  terms  had  passed  until  he  was  chosen  a  member  of  the  faculty. 
The  private  Normal  was  soon  merged  into  the  North  Missouri  State  Normal  School 
and  Mr.  Pickler  continued  to  teach  for  two  years,  when  he  retired  from  the  profes- 
sional labors  of  an  educator  to  engage  in  journalism.  It  was  some  time  in  the 
seventies  when  Mr.  Pickler  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  tlie  bar;  he  also  became 
the  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Kirksville  Journal,  the  Republican  party  organ  of  his  county.  This  business  venture  soon  began 
to  bear  bountiful  fruit,  and  its  popular  editor  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  M.  Bowen,  a  charming  lady  and  former  class-mate  in  the 
Normal  School.  Soon  after  his  marriage  he  was  elected  to  the  General  Assembly,  when  he  began  to  distinguish  himself  as  a 
shrewd  politician  and  an  able  legislator.  After  his  first  term  of  office  had  expired,  he  refused  further  political  honors  and  applied 
himself  industriously  to  mercantile  pursuits.  But  in  all  this  period  of  business  activity  and  success  he  retained  a  growing  hold 
upon  the  confidence  of  the  people  of  his  county,  and  it  was  with  some  reluctance  that  he  consented  again  to  assume  the  duties 
honors  and  responsibilities  of  a  Representative. 

Mr.  Pickler  has  four  brothers,  all  of  whom  have  distinguished  themselves  as  men  of  more  than  average  ability.  The  oldest, 
Hon.  John  A.  Pickler.  lias  served  four  terms  in  Congress  from  South  Dakota. 

Hon.  Sam  M.  Pickler  has,  during  the  present  session,  been  identified  with  numerous  important  measures.  On  the  floor  of 
the  House  he  is  the  equal  of  any  member  in  debate.  At  home  he  is  a  gentleman  of  enterprise,  never  too  busy  with  his  own  affairs 
to  devote  his  energies  to  matters  of  public  interest.  He  has  also  held  the  offices  of  School  Commissioner  of  Adair  county,  and 
Mayor  of  Kirksville.— 7.?^.  City  Courier,  Feb.  2b,  'gj. 


THOMAS  W.  MARTIN. 


»^  OME  men  are  born  great,  some  achieve  greatness,  and  some  are  born  in 
vj)  Missouri.  Thos.  W.  Martin  was  born  in  Missouri  and  is  proud  of  the 
State  of  his  nativity.  He  was  born  in  Clay  county,  near  Liberty, 
April  4,  1863.  He  moved  with  his  parents  to  Southwest  Missouri  when  he 
was  but  ten  years  of  age.  His  parents  were  poor  and  could  give  him  only 
a  common  school  education.  His  father  gave  him  his  time  at  eighteen,  and 
young  Martin  went  out  into  the  world  determined  to  secure  the  advantages 
of  a  higher  education.  Where  there  is  a  will  there  is  a  way,  and  the  subject  of 
this  wasn't  slow  in  realizing  the  force  of  the  old  proverb.  He  took  a  select 
course  in  the  State  Normal  at  Warrensburg,  Mo.,  and  began  the  vocation  of 
teaching  at  the  early  age  of  nineteen.  The  next  eight  years  of  his  life  were 
devoted  to  teaching  and  attending  school  alternately,  and  in  reading  law. 
He  was  a  successful  teacher  and  commanded  the  highest  wages  wherever  he 
taught.  In  1890  he  was  elected  Circuit  Clerk  of  Barton  county  and  served 
four  years.  While  in  the  Circuit  Clerk's  office  he  prepared  himself  for  the 
profession  of  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  September  i,  1S94.  He  ranks 
among  the  best  lawyers  in  Southwest  Missouri.  He  married  Miss  Ruth  Shopley,  an  accomplished  Missouri  girl. 
They  have  three  interesting  children.  Mr.  Martin  has  taken  an  interest  in  politics  since  he  was  eighteen  years  of 
age.  He  is  a  Democrat  and  his  democracy  is  of  the  Kentucky  stripe — bold,  fearless  and  aggressive.  He  was  placed  at 
the  head  of  the  Democratic  ticket  in  Barton  county  last  fall  and  elected  to  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  by  a 
large  majority.  "Martin  of  Barton"  was  one  of  the  most  eloquent  members  of  the  House  and  was  one  of  the  few 
Representatives  who  commanded  universal  attention  while  on  the  floor.  He  spoke  easily  and  always  with  fearless- 
ness, and  was  ever  ready  to  champion  any  measure  that  he  deemed  meritorious.  Besides  the  active  work  done  on  the 
floor  he  was  chairman  of  one  of  the  most  important  committees  of  the  House,  namely.  Criminal  Jurisprudence. 

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SAMUEL  F.    0' FALLON. 


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AMUEL  F.  O'FAIvLON,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  notably  one  of  the 
leaders  of  the  Republican  minority  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assem- 
bly. Ke  is  thirty-nine  years  old  and  was  born  in  Minnesota.  He  left  his  native 
State  in  1870,  and  ever  since  has  lived  in  Missouri,  trying  to  aid  Missou- 
rians  in  behalf  of  Missouri.  He  represents  Holt  county,  and  no  man  could 
more  ably  defend  her  interests  than  he  ;  he  is  a  lawyer  by  profession  and 
practices  at  Oregon  in  the  county  from  which  he  hails.  He  first  served  his 
time  in  the  public  schools  and  afterward  graduated  from  the  Northwest 
Missouri  Normal,  of  Oregon.  The  present  political  position  of  Mr.  O'Fallon 
is  by  no  means  his  first  official  experience  ;  he  has  at  different  times  been 
Mayor  of  Oregon,  Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Holt  county  and  Judge  of  its  Pro- 
bate Court,  the  latter  for  a  term  of  eight  years. 

In  1885  Mr,  O'Fallon  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Anderson,  of  the 
town  in  which  he  now  lives  ;  however,  in  1890  the  hand  of  death  took  from  him  his  helpmate,  and  since  then  he  has 
not  remarried.  Mr.  O'Fallon  is  a  member  of  the  Criminal  Jurisprudence  and  Election  Committees,  and  is  a 
valuable  and  influential  member  upon  both.  In  the  discussion  of  the  State  University  endowment  Mr.  O'Fallon  made 
a  speech  in  its  behalf  over  an  hour  in  length,  which  was  pronounced  by  all  who  heard  it  as  the  ablest  argument  made 
onthefloorof  the  House.  In  politics  he  is  an  uncompromising  Republican,  fair  and  liberal  minded  upon  all  public 
questions.  No  man  in  the  present  Assembly  enjoys  a  greater  degree  of  respect  and  admiration  from  his  fellow  mem- 
bers than  this  eloquent  young  statesman  from  Holt.  He  is  above  the  petty  catering  of  party  lines  and  does  his  duty 
as  an  honest  conscience  impels. 


W.   B.  FROST. 

NEWTON  COUNTY  is  represented  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly 
by  W.  B.  Frost,  who  is  a  Populist  in  his  political  faith.  Mr.  Frost  is 
fifty  years  old  and  was  born  in  Bedford  county,  Tennessee  ;  from  there  he 
removed  with  his  parents  to  Washington  county,  Arkansas,  and  there  he 
passed  the  greater  number  of  his  boyhood  days  ;  he  left  Arkansas  in  1868  and 
came  to  Newton  county,  where  he  has  resided  ever  since.  He  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Mary  A.  Ramsey,  who  was  a  resident  of  Washington 
county,  but  a  native  of  Tennessee.  He  is  the  father  of  three  children,  two 
living.  Mr.  Frost  has  followed  the  occupation  of  a  farmer,  and  his  efforts 
have  been  attended  with  fair  success. 

A  great  deal  of  credit  is  due  to  this  man — not  born  in  the  lap  of  luxury, 
with  everything  at  his  command  that  idle  whim  or  caprice  might  wish  for, 
but  he  was  forced  to  struggle  with  the  same  trials  and  adversity  which  con- 
front so  many  young  Americans,  but  which  after  all  are  the  things  which  create  iron  and  sinew.  He  followed  the 
flag  of  General  Lee  during  the  civil  war  and  was  an  ardent  sympathizer  in  the  Southern  soldier's  cause.  The  only 
other  office  Mr.  Frost  has  ever  held  besides  the  present  one  was  that  of  School  Director.  He  has  the  usual  character- 
istic of  a  Populist,  viz. :  to  get  right  down  to  the  bottom  of  every  question  which  comes  up  for  his  attention  and  con- 
sideration.    He  is  a  man  capable  of  discharging  the  duties  of  his  position. 


FORD  M.  DYER. 


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'ORD  M.  DYER,  the  "giant  from  DeKalb  county,"  made  a  record  in  the 
Lower  House  of  the  Assembly  that  will  bear  the  closest  scrutiny  of 
his  constituents.  He  was  born  in  the  erudite  East  in  the  State  of  Massa- 
chusetts, April  28,  1865;  came  with  his  parents  to  Missouri  in  his  infancy  and 
grew  up  on  the  farm.  Attended  the  district  school  winters  and  hardened  his 
muscles  at  hard  manual  work  during  the  summers.  After  working  on  the 
farm  until  he  was  nineteen  years  of  age,  he  entered  Kidder's  Institute  and 
enjoyed  its  educational  facilities  four  terms;  taught  in  the  public  schools 
thirty-one  months,  Cameron  High  School  one  year,  and  had  charge  of  the 
King  City  public  schools  four  years. 

Besides  Mr.  Dyer's  farm  and  school  work,  he  worked  on  the  railroad  as 
section  hand,  and  was  wood  and  steel  bridge  constructor  for  several  months. 
During  the  last  campaign  he  rendered  valuable  service  to  the  Demo- 
cratic party  by  organizing  silver  clubs  in  Davies,  Mercer,  DeKalb  and 
Harrison  counties.  He  made  sixty-six  speeches  in  the  Third  Congressional  District  last  fall,  and  led  his  party  to 
victory  in  his  own  county.  He  received  a  majority  of  50  votes  over  his  Republican  opponent.  As  chairman  on  the 
Committee  on  Education  Mr.  Dyer  rendered  the  educational  interests  of  the  State  invaluable  service.  He  was  tireless 
in  his  efforts  to  increase  the  educational  facilities  of  the  State,  and  no  man  on  the  floor  of  the  House  fought  harder 
against  trusts  and  monopolies  and  the  money  power  in  general.  He  is  a  man  of  much  natural  ability  and  force  of 
character.  He  figured  prominently  in  all  the  debates  of  the  House,  and  especially  in  those  on  education  and  labor. 
DeKalb  county  has  reason  to  be  proud  of  her  Representative.  Mr.  Dyer  introduced  House  bill  No.  42,  to  prevent 
lobbying,  and  also  a  bill  against  trusts. 


ROBERT  C.     VANDERHOEF. 


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HE  subject  of  this  short  biographical  sketch  is  Robert  Clinton  Vander- 
hoef,  the  young  Populist  statesman  who  represents  Nodaway  county  in 
the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  He  is  a  typical  young  Missourian  ;  was 
born  twenty- eight  years  ago  and  grew  to  manhood  in  the  county  for  which 
he  is  now  making  laws  in  the  Legislature  ;  by  profession  is  a  school  teacher 
and  was  educated  in  Maryville  Seminary  and  the  Stanberry  Normal. 

Mr.  Vanderhoef  was  united  in  the  bonds  of  wedlock  to  pretty  Maggie  J. 
Layton  of  Decatur,  Illinois. 

Politically  speaking  Mr.  Vanderhoef  is  a  Populist ;  however,  in  his  own 

language,  he  is  not  one  of  the  middle-of-the-road  kind.     Being  a  pedagogue 

by  profession,  he  is  a  warm  friend  of  all  educational  institutions,  and  his 

votes  upon   all  propositions  during  this  session  upon  these  questions  have 

been  in  the  aflSrmative. 

Mr.  Vanderhoef  has  made  friends  of  all  his  fellow  members  who  have  been  thrown  in  contact  with  him  ;  he  is 

a  young  man  of  much  ability  and  promise,  is  liberal  in  his  views  upon  all  questions,  and  is  a  man  who  is  not  afraid  to 

state  his  position  upon  a  matter  of  legislation.     He  is  a  man  thoroughly  competent  to  take  care  of  himself  in  the 

tumult  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


WILLIAM  J.    WARD. 


AMONG  those  distinguished  few  who  mold  the  political  policy  and  sen- 
timent of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly,  none  rank  higher  than 
William  J.  Ward,  the  Democratic  Representative  of  Stoddard  county.  He 
is  one  of  the  readiest  and  most  aggressive  debaters  on  the  floor  of  the  House, 
and  when  he  calls  for  recognition  upon  a  question  he  is  listened  to  with  the 
greatest  attention  and  respect.  Having  served  in  the  Thirty-sixth  and 
Thirty-seventh  General  Assemblies  previous  to  the  present  one,  he  is  natur- 
ally a  very  able  general  in  the  political  wrangles  which  are  constantly  com- 
ing before  the  House,  and  thus  from  a  parliamentary  standpoint  has 
quite  an  advantage  over  those  who  are  less  experienced  in  such  affairs.  Mr. 
Ward  is  a  farmer,  and  was  raised  in  White  county,  Tennessee,  having  resided 
in  this  State  only  eleven  years.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
Tennessee,  and  married  Miss  Laura  R.  Roberts  of  his  native  State  and 
county.  Three  children  blessed  their  happy  union,  two  of  which  survive — 
both  bright  little  girls.  Mr.  Ward  enjoys  the  distinction  of  being  Chairman 
of  the  Committee  on  Ways  and  Means,  one  of  the  highest  marks  of  honor 
that  can  be  bestowed  upon  a  member,  and  was  one  of  the  fifteen  members  of  the  Special  Committee  on  Location  and 
Relocation  of  the  State  University,  appointed  by  the  extra  session  of  the  Thirty-sixth  Assembly.  In  the  Thirty- 
seventh  General  Assembly  he  was  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Agriculture,  and  has  on  three  different  occasions 
been  a  delegate  to  State  Democratic  conventions;  has  been  a  member  of  the  M.  E.  Chuich  (South)  since  1869;  was  six 
times  a  delegate  to  the  St.  Louis  Conference.  Mr.  Ward  has  in  the  past  been  very  active  in  farmers'  organizations, 
especially  the  Farmers'  Alliance.  While  he  is  an  unusually  able  debater  and  an  excellent  parliamentarian,  he  is  yet 
fair  and  honest  in  his  methods.  In  short,  he  is  a  gentleman  and  a  safe  guardian  of  the  people's  rights.  His  impress 
as  an  able  legislator  and  a  thorough  gentleman  will  remain  upon  the  men  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  as 
long  as  a  thought  of  its  labors  and  accomplishments  is  retained. 


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Z.   T.  REYNOLDS. 


T.  REYNOLDS,  the  Representative  from  Stone  county,  was  born 
near  Boonville,  Owsley  county,  Ky.,  forty-two  years  ago.  He  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  the  community; 
commenced  teaching  school  at  the  age  of  twenty,  teaching  two  schools  in 
Kentucky.  In  1875  he  located  in  Arkansas  and  took  a  course  in  the  Hunts- 
ville  High  School,  dividing  his  time  between  teaching  and  farming. 
Powell  Clayton,  the  well-known  Arkansas  politician,  once  said  that  any  man 
could  be  a  Republican  in  Iowa,  but  it  took  a  man  of  true  grit  to  be  a  Repub- 
lican in  Arkansas.  Mr.  Reynolds  was  a  Republican  in  Arkansas  and  made 
the  race  on  that  ticket  for  Sheriff  of  Madison  county,  Arkansas,  and  came 
within  a  very  few  votes  of  being  elected  over  a  strong  Democratic  vote.  Mr. 
Reynolds  located  in  Stone  county,  Missouri,  in  1888,  and  has  devoted  his 
time  to  selling  general  merchandise  and  buying  cotton,  farming,  teaching, 
etc.  He  has  always  taken  an  active  part  in  politics  and  was  placed  at  the 
head  of  the  Republican  county  ticket  last  fall  and  elected  by  a  majority  of  269  votes  over  the  fusion  ticket;  was 
married  in  18S0  to  Miss  C.  F.  Williams,  of  Madison  county,  Arkansas.  Mr.  Reynolds  is  a  pleasant,  genial  fel- 
low and  has  made  many  warm  friends  among  his  fellow  legislators  of  all  political  faiths,  and  was  a  valuable  mem- 
ber of  the  Committee  on  University,  Normal  Schools  and  Constitutional  Amendments. 


JESSE  H.   TAYLOR. 


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ESSE  H.  TAYLOR  is  the  Representative  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General 
Assembly  of  Missouri  from  Harrison  county.  He  is  fifty-three  years 
old  and  was  born  in  Fulton  county,  Indiana,  and  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  that  place.  He  came  to  this  State  twentj'-nine  years  ago,  and  is 
content  to  cast  his  fortunes  with  the  State  and  people  for  which  he  is  now 
engaged  in  making  laws.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Juliette  A.  Busick  of  his  na- 
tive State,  and  is  the  father  of  nine  children,  eight  of  whom  are  living;  six  of 
the  children  are  active  members  of  the  Christian  Church.  By  occupation 
Mr.  Taylor  is  a  farmer  and  merchant,  which  business  he  follows  at  his  home 
ill  Martinsville,  Harrison  county.  In  politics  he  is  a  firm  Republican,  and 
is  trying  to  assist  the  Republican  minority  in  keeping  from  being  entirely 
submerged  by  the  vast  Democratic  majority.  He  has  served  in  various  oflS- 
cial  capacities— Justice  of  the  Peace,  Postmaster  and  Mayor  of  the  city.  He 
is  a  conscientious  member  of  the  Christian  Church;  served  during  the  war 
in  Co.  B,  Fifty-fifth  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry;  is  a  member  of  the  George  W.  Tyler  Post,  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic.  He  has  made  the  most  of  his  limited  opportunities,  and  by  hard  struggles  with  adversity  has  amassed  a 
snug  little  competency,  which  will  keep  him  easily,  when  age  compels  him  to  cease  the  energy  and  efforts  of 
active  manhood.  He  takes  a  keen  interest  in  legislative  affairs,  and  is  a  strong  member  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General 
Assembly. 


/.  H.  DORSETT. 


CASS  COUNTY  is  represented  in  the  present  Assembly  by  J.  H.  Dor- 
sett,  one  of  the  most  uncompromising  Bryan  Democrats  that  tread 
the  soil  of  Missouri.  He  is  a  typical  farmer  in  appearance,  but  the  lobby- 
ist who  thinks  he  is  "a  good  thing"  because  there  is  hayseed  in  his  hair 
will  find  that  he  is  dealing  with  a  cold-hearted  character  when  he  strikes 
the  horny-fisted  statesman  from  Cass  for  a  "deal."  Mr.  Dorsett  is  easily 
one  of  the  leaders  of  the  present  House,  and  deservedly  so,  from  the  fact 
that  he  is  well  posted  in  politics,  is  an  able  speaker,  and  a  man  of  much 
natural  ability.  He  was  born  in  Morgan  county,  Indiana,  fifty- three  years 
ago,  and  educated  in  the  public  and  normal  schools  of  his  native  State.  He 
is  a  farmer,  teacher  and  auctioneer,  and  is  very  popular  in  his  county,  this, 
however,  being  his  first  service  in  an  oflBcial  capacity.  He  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Mary    Duncan,  and   seven  children  blessed   their  union. 

Mr.  Dorsett  is  one  of  the  most  tireless  workers  in  the  present  Assembly,    and  is  recognized  as  one  of  its  ablest  men. 

They  have  dubbed  him  "The  Watch  Dog  of  Missouri's  Treasury,"  and   a  very  appropriate  title  it  is.     Mr.  Dorsett  is 

courteous  in  manner,  and  has  made  a  friend  of  all  who  have  learned  to  know  him, 

Cass  county  has  made  no  mistake  in  sending  to  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  the  horny-handed,  bewhis- 

kered  Jerry  Dorsett. 


JOSEPH  MORTON  McKIM . 


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OSEPH  MORTON  McKIM,  a  resident  of  Newark,  Knox  county,  Mis- 
souri, was  born  in  Millersburg,  Bourbon  county,  Ky.,  March  13,  1836. 
When  three  years  of  age  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Lewis  county, 
Missouri,  where  he  resided  on  a  farm,  attending  the  public  schools  of  the 
county  until  fourteen  years  of  age,  when  he  entered  the  primary  depart- 
ment of  the  State  University  at  Columbia,  Mo.  Remaining  there  until  the 
completion  of  the  art  course,  he  became  an  alumnus  in  that  institution  with 
the  class  of  1855.  Immediately  thereafter  he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine, 
attended  the  St.  Louis  College  and  graduated  March  2,  1858.  In  April  of 
that  year  he  located  in  Winchester,  Clark  county,  Mo.,  for  the  practice  of 
medicine,  where  he  lived  until  January,  1861,  when  he  removed  to  his  pres- 
ent place  of  residence  in  Knox  county.  Mo.  During  his  stay  in  Winchester 
he  married,  on  Oct.  14,  1858,  Miss  Natilia  J.  Rose,  daughter  of  Dr.  W.  A. 
Rose  of  that  place.  They  have  reared  six  children,  four  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters, the  youngest  of  whom  is  nearly  grown.  In  politics  the  Doctor  is  a 
Democrat,  but  having  been  actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  has  never  held  office,  save  as  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Regents  of  the  First  District  Normal  School,  at  Kirksville,  Mo.  This  position  he  held  for  18 
consecutive  years,  beginning  January,  1872.  At  the  general  election  of  1896  he  was  commissioned  by  a  majority  vote  ot 
Knox  county  as  its  duly  accredited  Representative  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  of  Missouri.  No  one  had 
more  friends  among  the  members  of  the  House  than  Dr.  McKim.  His  pleasant  manner  and  genial  good  nature 
attracted  to  him  many  friends,  while  his  devotion  to  duty  made  him  a  trusted  and  useful  member  of  the  Thirty-ninth 
General  Assembly. 


JESSE  L.  HENDRICKSON. 


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^HIS  is  a  likeness  of  Jesse  L.  Hendrickson,  who  represents  Dallas 
county  in  the  present  General  Assembly.  Mr.  Hendrickson  resides  at 
Buffalo,  and  was  born  January  21,  1859.  He  has  passed  the  greater 
portion  of  his  life  in  the  county  which  he  now  represents.  Was  educated 
first  in  the  public  schools  and  afterward  attended  the  Warrensburg  Normal 
and  the  Southwest  Baptist  College.  He  is  a  farmer  and  is  thoroughly  awake 
to  all  legislation  affecting  the  farming  classes  in  general. 

Mr.  Hendrickson  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Alice  R.  Tinsley,  of 
Buffalo,  Mo.,  and  is  the  father  of  four  children,  two  of  which  are  dead.  He 
is  a  Populist  in  politics  and  believes  firmly  in  the  party  of  long  whiskered 
men.  The  present  ofl&ce  is  not  the  first  public  capacity  in  which  he  has  served.  In  1887  he  was  elected  County  School 
Commissioner  of  Dallas  county;  in  1888  he  became  the  nominee  of  the  Democratic  party  for  Representative,  but  was 
defeated.  This  time,  however,  he  again  became  the  nominee  of  the  united  forces  for  free  silver,  and  he  was 
elected.  He  is  a  man  of  retired  disposition  and  has  no  ambition  to  pose  as  a  House  orator,  but  he  is  nevertheless  a 
man  who  calmly  investigates  legislative  matters  and  is  in  every  way  capable  of  representing  a  county  in  the  Thirty- 
ninth  General  Assembly. 


JAMES  M.  McMONIGLE. 


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NE  of  the   brightest  young  Democrats  of  the   House   is  James   M. 
McMonigle,    Representative    from    Platte    county.        He    was    born 
December  i,  1866,  in  the  county  he  liad  the  honor  of  representing  in  the 
Lower  House  of  the  Assembly  that  has  just  passed  into  history. 

Like  the  illustrious  Lincoln  he  was  born  in  a  log  cabin  and  fought  the 
early  battles  of  life  with  courage  and  perseverance.  After  leaving  the  public 
schools  of  his  county  he  attended  Park  College  and  graduated  with  honors 
from  that  institution  in  1893.  The  following  winter  he  studied  law  in  the 
office  of  Harkles  &  O'Grady,  Kansas  City,  Missouri.  He  was  chosen  Prin- 
cipal of  the  Galena,  Stone  county,  public  schools  in  1894,  and  Principal  of 
Dewitt  College,  Platte  county,  Missouri,  in  1895. 

Mr.  McMonigle  is  a  young  man  of  great  promise.  He  is  a  good  talker 
and  a  ready  debater,  and  has  made  his  influence  felt  time  after  time  on  the 
floor.  He  is  a  legislator  who  merits  the  confidence  of  his  constituents.  The 
fact  that  he  is  of  Scotch-Irish  descent  accounts  for  his  ability  and  unswerving  devotion  to  duty.  In  the  discussion 
of  measures  that  pertained  to  the  masses  it  was  easy  to  place  McMonigle.  His  life  had  been  spent  with  the  common 
people  and  he  was  their  bold  and  fearless  champion.  Per  augusta  ad  nobilitatem  is  the  guarding  motto  of  his  life, 
that  has  wrung  victory  from  defeat  and  success  from  failure. 

Mr.  McMonigle  was  a  member  of  the  Committees  on  Education  and  University,  and  rendered  valuable  service  for 
the  Committee  on  Education  in  the  council  chamber  of  these  committees.  He  was  one  of  the  many  able  leaders  of  the 
Democratic  party  in  the  House. 


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JOHN  F.    TANDY. 


'  OHN  F.  TANDY,  the  Representative  from  McDonald  county,  was  born 
in  Carroll  county,  Kentucky,  fifty -eight  years  ago.  In  1850  he  came 
to  Missouri  with  his  parents,  and  received  the  greater  part  of  his  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  the  State.  He  followed  the  healthful  pursuit  of 
farming  in  St.  Clair  county.  He  was  honored  by  the  voters  of  St.  Clair 
county  repeatedly.  Judge  Tandy  served  as  Associate  Judge  of  the  County 
Court  for  a  number  of  years,  and  was  elected  Presiding  Judge  of  the  County 
Court  in  1887,  and  served  four  years  in  that  capacity.  Judge  Tandy  was 
incarcerated  in  the  Cole  county  jail  for  seven  months  for  refusing,  as  Judge 
of  the  County  Court,  to  make  a  levy  to  pay  an  illegal  railroad  debt.  He 
was  married  twice  ;  his  first  wife  was  Miss  M.  H.  Townsend,  a  Missouri  girl, 
and  his  second  wife  was  Miss  Susan  M.  Moore,  of  Callaway  county.  He  moved  to  McDonald  county  in  1893,  and  now 
lives  near  Tiff  City  on  a  farm.  The  Judge  took  an  active  part  in  politics  and  was  considered  the  leader  of 
the  silver  forces  in  his  county;  he  is  a  Democrat  and  Populist,  and  not  ashamed  of  his  politics.  The  Democratic 
party  in  McDonald  county  and  the  Populist  party  are  one  and  inseparable,  and  Judge  Tandy  was  placed  upon  the 
Democratic  ticket  and  was  elected  by  a  handsome  majority.  He  made  but  few  speeches  in  the  House,  but  always 
talked  to  the  point  when  he  secured  the  floor.  Judge  Tandy  was  a  safe  Representative  and  was  conscientious  in  the 
discharge  of  his  duties. 


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/.  D.  ELLIS. 


*HE  following  sketch  is  a  short  pedigree  of  one  of  the  sturdiest  and  best 

rock-ribbed   Democrats  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly,  J.  D. 

Ellis.     He  is  a  typical  Missourian ,  is  fifty-two  years  old  and  was   born  in 

Montgomery  county  of  this  State,  but  passed  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in 

Vernon  county,  which  be  represents  in  the  present  Assembly. 

Mr.  Ellis'  first  wife  was  Miss  Mary  J.  Dean  of  Vernon  ;  after  her  death 
he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Willoughby,  also  of  the  above  county. 
He  is  the  father  of  six  children,  three  boys  and  three  girls. 

Mr.  Ellis  has  held  office  in  his  county  for  a  number  of  years,  being 
elected  Constable  of  his  Township  in  '78,  in  which  capacity  he  served  until 
'86  ;  was  School  Director  from  1873  until  1896.  He  served  three  years  in  the 
First  Arkansas  Infantry,  Company  "K,"  under  Captain  Abiel  Stephens.  Mr. 
Ellis  has  seen  many  of  the  hardships  of  life,  yet  is  a  man  of  wonderfully  well  preserved  physical  strength.  He  has 
been  a  farmer  all  his  life  and  is  noted  in  his  county  as  a  breeder  of  thoroughbred  Berkshire  swine.  Mr.  Ellis  takes  an 
active  part  in  all  matters  which  come  up  before  the  Thirty-ninth  Assembly,  is  thoroughly  imbued  with  the  interests 
of  the  farming  classes  and  is  not  slow  to  raise  his  voice  in  protest  when  a  measure  is  proposed,  detrimental  to  their 
best  interests.  He  is  a  strong  man  and  an  honor  to  Vernon  county,  which  has  seen  fit  to  make  him  one  of  Missouri's 
legislators. 


GEORGE  W.   CHINN. 


THE  subject  of  this  brief  biography  is  George  W.  Chinn,  the  Democratic 
Representative  from  Shelby  county.  He  resides  at  Clarence  and  was 
born  November  25,  1831,  in  Henry  county,  Kentucky,  and  that  great  State, 
the  home  of  Joe  Blackburn,  seems  to  have  left  upon  him  the  imprint  of  its 
high  standard  of  manhood  and  honesty.  Mr.  Chinn  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Shelby  county,  and  while  the  advantages  of  a  higher  or  college 
education  were  denied  him,  yet  by  being  a  close  observer  and  student  he  has 
made  much  of  the  opportunities  of  life.  He  was  one  of  those  rugged  men 
who  followed  the  flag  of  L,ee  because  an  honest  conscience  marked  that  as 
his  path  of  duty.  He  was  a  Lieutenant,  and  was  wounded  at  Pleasant  Hill, 
Louisiana,  and  surrendered  at  Shreveport,  Louisiana,  in  1865.  When  the 
cause  and  ambition  of  the  South  went  down  in  defeat  Mr.  Chinn  laid  down 
his  musket  and  submitted  gracefully  to  the  decree  and  mandate  of  the  North- 
ern sword — to  fight  for  the  people's  interests  as  valiantly  as  he  had  fought 
against  the  triumph  of  "  Honest  Old  Abe."  He  was  the  first  Mayor  of  the 
city  of  Clarence.  In  1874  Mr.  Chinn  was  married  to  Mrs.  Virginia  Huntsberry,  of  Virginia,  and  they  have  had  two 
children  each  by  former  marriages — Lillie  G.  Tanner,  who  lives  in  Clarence  ;  Ella  M.  Gilman,  who  resides  on  a 
farm  in  Shelby  county  ;  Varian  S.  Huntsberry,  a  farmer  in  Shelby  county,  and  Lulu,  the  eldest,  who  is  dead.  Mr, 
Chinn  is  one  of  the  strongest  members  of  the  present  Assembly.  He  served  in  the  session  of  the  Thirty-eighth  Gen- 
eral Assembly,  and  therefore  came  to  the  present  Legislature  with  an  advance  experience  in  the  political  devices 
and  intrigues,  an  information  which  is  so  necessary  to  every  legislator.  He  is  a  man  of  character,  ability,  a  Democrat 
of  the  truest  blue,  and  an  honor  and  credit  as  the  Representative  of  Shelby  county. 


JOHN  G.  SLATE. 


AMONG  the  young  Democratic  Representatives  of  the  Thirty-ninth  Gen- 
eral Assembly  who  will  be  remembered  permanently  after  it  has  be- 
come a  matter  of  history,  is  John  G.  Slate.  Mr.  Slate  represents 
Maries  count}'  and  is  a  lawyer  and  publisher  by  profession.  He  was  the 
Prosecuting  Attorney  of  his  county  in  the  years  1889-90,  also  1893-94.  He 
was  born  in  i860  and  passed  the  greater  portion  of  his  boyhood  days  in  Cole 
and  Boone  counties;  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  this  State  and 
afterward  completed  his  education  in  Amity  College  at  College  Springs, 
Iowa.  Mr.  Slate  has  all  that  extra  polish  and  grace,  which  is  the  outgrowth 
'  of  a  college  training  and  which  specially  fits  him  for  a  career  of  public  life. 

He  married  Miss  Mattie  Beard,  of  Cape  Girardeau,  and  is  the  father  of  a 
bright  little  girl,  who  is  four  years  old.  Mr.  Slate  has  received  much 
prominence  throughout  the  State  from  the  fact  that  he  is  the  father  of  the 
"Slate  Revenue  bill,"  a  measure  which  has  caused  more  heated  debate  than 
anything  of  a  like  nature  which  has  come  up  before  the  present  Assembly. 
He  is  also  author  of  the  "Stock  Yards  bill,"  which  brought  about  the  establishment  of  the  Joint  Interstate  Committee  of 
Missouri,  Illinois  and  Kansas.  It  is  the  prescribed  duty  of  this  committee  to  draft  a  uniform  system  of  laws  regulating 
the  stock  yards.  "Jack  Slate,"  as  he  is  familiarly  called,  is  one  of  the  most  popular  men  connected  with  the  present 
Assembly.  He  is  big  hearted,  jovial  in  natur^  and  a  gentleman  in  every  sense  of  the  word.  Yet  his  qualities  as  a 
good  fellow  do  not  interfere  with  his  usefulness  as  a  legislator,  for  he  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  very  ablest  young 
men  in  the  House.  He  is  Democratic  to  the  core,  and  has  a  bright  future  in  the  ranks  of  the  party  with  which  he 
has  chosen  to  cast  his  political  fortunes. 


THOMAS  J.  FE ASTER. 


CAMDEN  COUNTY  is  represented  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assem- 
bly by  Thomas  J.  Feaster,  a  prominent  and  emphatic  Democrat  of 
the  Bryan  variety.  Mr.  Feaster  is  a  practicing  physician,  located  at 
Climax  Springs,  in  the  county  which  he  represents.  He  was  born  in  Benton 
county  thirty-six  years  ago  and  has  resided  in  this  State  nearly  all  his  life. 
He  first  availed  himself  of  the  advantages  of  the  common  public  schools 
and  afterward  completed  his  education  at  Morrisville,  Mo.,  and  Louisville, 
Ky.  Mr.  Feaster  conceived  the  ambition  to  become  a  physician  early  iu  his 
boyhood  days,  and  it  has  been  realized  to  the  fullest  extent  from  the  fact 
that  he  now  enjoys  a  lucrative  practice  in  the  county  which  he  represents. 
Mr.  Feaster  was  not  born  rich,  but  like  many  other  boys  who  have  defied  ad- 
versity, he  gradually  worked  his  way  up  in  his  profession  until  he  is  now  in 
comfortable  circumstances.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Mamie  Darnell,  and 
finds  in  her  an  excellent  partner  and  helpmate.  His  popularity  in  his  home  county  is  attested  by  the  fact  that  he 
was  elected  from  a  county  which  gave  McKinley  forty  more  votes  than  Bryan.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Scientific  and  Benevolent  Institutions.  Mr.  Feaster  is  a  quiet  man  and  is  content  to  cast  a  maturely  studied  vote 
upon  the  matters  which  come  before  him. 


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JOHN  F.  MILLER. 


OHN  F.  MILLER  is  the  sterling  Democratic  Representative  from  Web- 


and  removed  from  there  to  the  county  which  he  now  represents  in  the  Thirty- 
ninth  General  Assembly.  Mr.  Miller  was  educated  in  Mt.  Union  College, 
Mt.  Union,  Ohio.  He  is  a  farmer  by  occupation  and  owns  an  excellent  tract 
of  400  acres  of  land  in  Webster  county,  on  which  he  has  lived  ever  since 
he  came  to  this  State.  He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Amanda  J. 
Hahn  of  Columbian  county,  of  his  native  State,  and  is  the  father  of  seven 
children,  six  boys  and  one  girl.  Mr.  Miller  is  by  no  means  an  amateur  in 
politics.  He  represented  his  county  in  the  Thirty-sixth  General  Assembly 
and  in  1896  was  elected  to  the  Thirty-ninth.  He  was  chairman  of  his 
County  Central  Democratic  Committee  from  1888  to  1890,  and  was  a  member 
of  his  Congressional  Committee  from  1890  to  1892.  Mr.  Miller  is  a  Democrat  of  the  truest  blue,  and  being  a  farmer 
he  is  thoroughly  imbued  with  their  interests  in  his  legislative  work.  If  all  farmers  took  as  much  active  interest  in 
behalf  of  just  laws,  the  industrial  classes  of  this  nation  would  not  to-day  be  surrounded  by  class  and  trust  legislation. 
He  is  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Insurance  and  is  in  every  way  a  man  capable  of  representing  the  people  who 
have  sent  him  to  the  present  General  Assembly  of  Missouri. 


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JOHN  MORRIS. 


ULLIVAN  county  is  represented  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly 
by  John  Morris,  a  good  specimen  of  a  modern  JefFersonian  Democrat- 
He  was  born  fifty  years  ago  in  Sullivan  county  and  educated  in  its  public 
schools;  afterward  completed  his  education  in  the  Kirksville  Normal.  His 
present  office  is  the  only  political  position  he  has  ever  held,  having  carried 
his  county  by  a  majority  of  91  over  his  Republican  opponent;  has  always 
lived  in  this  State  and  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Sarah  Jane  Muncy,  of 
Sullivan  county,  and  is  the  father  of  three  children— Iva,  aged  20;  Charles 
M.,  19,  and  Ray,  13;  was  a  volunteer  soldier  in  the  Union  army  and  served 
in  Company  "I,"  Forty-second  Regiment  of  Missouri  Volunteer  Infantry, 
and  was  honorably  discharged  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  on  March  22,  1865.  Mr. 
Morris  is  a  farmer,  in  which  occupation  he  has  made  a  fair  success,  conse- 
quently he  is  ever  on  the  alert  for  any  legislation  which  concerns  the  man  who  makes  his  living  by  tilling  the  soil. 
He  believes  it  the  duty  of  every  legislator  to  save  every  dollar  possible  for  the  tax-payers  of  his  State,  and  it  is  this 
economical  principle  that  guides  all  his  votes  in  the  Thirtj'-ninth  General  Assembly.  He  will  not  in  any  way  mis- 
represent Sullivan  county. 


ORVILLE  MARION  BARNETT. 


ORVILLE  MARION  BARNETT  is  a  bright  and  able  young  Democrat 
who  represents  Pettis  county  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 
Mr.  Barnett,  who  is  only  twenty-six  years  old,  was  born  in  Knox  county  in 
this  State,  and  received  his  education  in  Missouri's  great  school  of  classic 
and  scientific  learning,  the  State  University.  He  is  a  lawyer  by  profession 
and  few  young  men  in  the  State  have  a  brighter  prospect  in  the  unknown 
future  than  this  young  attorney  and  statesman  from  Pettis.  He  is  of  an 
ambitious  temperament  and  has  had  all  the  natural  advantages  that  any  young 
man  could  desire.  He  comes  from  a  county  which  is  strongly  Republican, 
and  defeated  Mr.  Bothwell,  the  shrewd  and  trusted  light  hand  lieutenant  of 
Chauncey  Ives  Filley.  Mr.  Barnett  was  united  in  bonds  of  wedlock  to  Miss 
Maud  Smith,  of  Bdina,  and  together  they  make  a  very  attractive  and  happy 
young  couple — surely  no  young  man  in  Missouri  could  wish  for  brighter 
prospects;  unhampered  by  the  poverty  which  hinders  so  many  ambitious  young  men  in  this  land,  educated  and 
polished  in  a  manner  that  enables  him  to  move  in  any  social  circle,  possessed  of  a  fine  intellect  and  a  host  of  admir- 
ing friends,  certainly  the  future's  horizon  is  behung  with  no  dark  clouds  for  Orville  Marion  Barnett.  He  is  Chairman 
of  the  Committee  on  Elections  and  is  the  second  member  on  the  Judiciary  Committee.  He  is  an  excellent  debater, 
being  possessed  of  a  fine  flow  of  language  and  the  habit  of  speaking  tersely  to  the  matter  under  consideration.  He 
is  beyond  question  one  of  the  foremost  leaders  among  the  young  men  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  No 
man  knows  the  future — it  is  one  vast  impenetrable  shroud;  yet  so  far  as  our  understanding  of  the  present  goes,  the 
young  statesman  from  the  city  which  was  ambitious  to  become  Missouri's  capital  has  prospects  which  will  some  day 
reveal  themselves  in  great  and  noble  achievements. 


SAMUEL   T.  AYDELOTT, 


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'HERE  are  some  men  connected  with  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assem- 
bly who  are  hard  hearted  and  mean  enough  to  call  Sam  Aydelott  the 
"ugliest  man  in  the  House."  However,  if  he  be  deficient  in  personal 
beauty  he  more  than  counterbalances  that  failing  in  brains  and  common 
sense.  He  is  a  Republican  and  represented  Warren  county  in  the  Thirty- 
fifth  and  Thirty-sixth  General  Assemblies,  being  again  elected  to  the  same 
responsible  position  in  this,  the  Thirty-ninth  Assembly.  He  resides  in  War- 
renton,  was  born  and  raised  in  Warren  county  and  educated  in  its  public 
schools.  Being  dissatisfied,  however,  with  a  mere  ordinary  education  such 
as  is  afforded  in  the  rudimentary  common  schools,  he  afterward  completed 
his  course  at  McGee  College  in  Macon  county.  He  was  born  in  the  year 
1855  and  is  therefore  just  in  the  prime  of  his  activity  and  usefulness.  He 
was  married  to  Miss  Belle  Hass,  of  Montgomery  county,  and  four  children 
assist  them  in  making  the  burdens  of  life  less  troublesome.  His  father  came  to  this  State  in  1838  from  Delaware  and 
married  Miss  Nancy  Hairslip  of  St.  Charles  county.  Mr.  Aydelott  is  easily  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  Republican 
minority — indeed  there  are  those  who  consider  him  the  ablest  Republican  in  the  House.  He  led  the  fight  against  the 
normal  schools  and  contended  for  equal  rights  to  all  private  schools  of  the  State.  He  is  a  teacher  by  profession,  and 
hence  is  well  posted  in  educational  matters.  Having  had  a  wide  experience  in  the  Legislature  of  this  State  he  is  an 
expert  parliamentarian.  In  political  tactics  he  is  fair,  in  a  political  fight  aggressive,  yet  broad  minded — in  short,  a 
gentleman,  and  a  man  who  is  an  honor  to  his  people  and  his  county,  irrespective  of  politics. 


/.  H.  MAS HB URN. 


AMONG  the  Democratic  Representatives  of  the  Thirty-ninth   General 
Assembly  there  are  none  abler  than  J.  H.  Mashbura,  of  Polk  county. 

In  his  own  peculiar  language,  he  is  a  "Jeffersonian,  Jacksonian,  Bentonian 
Democrat."  He  is  an  ardent  advocate  of  bimetallism,  and  a  great  admirer 
of  that  imperial  man  and  statesman,  William  J.  Stone.  It  was  Mr.  Mash- 
burn  who  persisted  in  nominating  the  ex-Governor  for  the  United  States 
Senate  to  succeed  George  G.  Vest.  He  did  it  on  his  own  accord  and  with- 
out consulting  anyone — he  did  it  because  he  thought  it  was  his  duty,  and 
because  he  thought  that  if  such  a  culmination  were  reached  it  would  result 
for  the  good  of  the  people  of  this  great  State.  He  has  the  candor  and 
openness  of  a  man  who  believes  in  his  own  convictions,  is  an  eloquent  and 
forceful  speaker,  and  enjoys  the  profound  respect  of  every  member  of  the 
Assembly,  irrespective  of  party  affiliation.  He  was  born  in  Kentucky  in 
1839,  and  has  the  jovial  disposition  and  big-heartedness  of  the  typical  "Ken* 
tucky  Colonel."  Notwithstanding  that  he  is  polished  and  has  a  wide  range  of  information,  he  is,  in  every  sense  of 
the  word,  a  self-educated  man  and  owes  his  advancement  entirely  to  his  own  struggles  and  efforts.  He  was  married  to 
Miss  A.  E.  Tillery,  of  Polk  county,  and  has  four  children.  If  all  public  servants  and  legislators  were  of  the  rugged, 
honest  character  of  Mr.  Mashburn,  the  people's  interests  would  never  suffer.  When  asked  by  a  member  of  the  Sen- 
atorial Caucus  by  whose  authority  he  nominated  W.  J.  Stone  for  the  United  States  Senate,  he  replied  instantly,  "By 
the  authority  of  the  citizens  of  Polk  county  and  the  common  people  of  Missouri."  He  is  a  courteous  gentleman,  a 
warm-hearted  friend,  and  an  honor  to  the  county  which  lies  amid  Missouri's  Ozarks. 


DR.   CORD  BOHLING. 


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R.  CORD  BOHLING  represents  Morgan  county  in  the  Thirty-ninth 


years  ago  and  has  passed  the  greater  portion  of  his  life  in  the  county  which 
he  now  represents.  He  first  completed  the  common  school  courses  and 
afterward  added  the  polishing  touch  to  his  education  by  attending  the  Cen- 
tral Weslyan  College.  After  this  he  attended  the  medical  lectures  of  the 
Missouri  Medical  College  at  St.  Louis  and  graduated  from  that  institution  in 
1889.  He  then  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  his  native  county  and  has 
continued  it  ever  since,  with  a  satisfactory  degree  of  success.  Dr.  Bohling 
is  a  staunch  Democrat  and  a  firm  believer  in  the  doctrines  and  principles  of 
the  Democratic  party.  Although  he  enjoys  a  lucrative  practice  as  a  physi- 
cian in  Morgan  county,  he  has  a  natural  love  for  politics  and  this  caused  him 
to  accept  the  nomination  for  Representative  in  his  county.  As  a  class,  the  physicians  of  Missouri  are  very  active  in 
political  affairs,  and  Dr.  Bohling  is  entitled  to  prominent  recognition  in  their  ranks.  He  does  not  take  any  aggres- 
sive part  in  the  debates  upon  the  floor  of  the  House,  but  is  content  to  cast  an  intelligent  and  well  studied  vote  upon 
the  propositions  that  come  up  before  him.  Dr.  Bohling  was  married  to  Miss  Anna  Luetzen  and  a  bright  little  boy 
cheers  their  union  and  makes  their  life  more  cheerful  and  monotony  less  monotonous. 


JAMES  M.  HOPKINS. 


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*HIS  cut  is  the  likeness   of  jovial  James   M.    Hopkins,  the  Democratic 
Representative  from  Atchison  county.     He  is  thirty-eight  years  old, 
born  March  2,  1859,  in   the  above  county.     He  was  educated  in  Tabor  Col- 
lege, Fremont  county,    Iowa,  and   afterward  entered  the  University  of  this 
State  and  completed  the  junior  year  in  law.     He  was  married  to  Miss  Linda 
Sutherland,  of  Jones   county,  Iowa,    and  is  the  father  of  three  bright  chil- 
dren— two  boys  and  one  girl.     He  is  the  son  of  Hon.  Nelson  O.  Hopkins, 
who  represented  Atchison   county  in  the  Legislature  in    1857  and  in  1882. 
He  is  a  farmer  by  occupation,  having  turned  his  back  upon  the  professional 
career  which  his  education  and  early  equipment  made  it  possible  for  him  to 
enter  upon.     He  was  elected  to  the  present  Assembly  by  a  majority  of  683 
votes  over  his  Republican  opponent.     It  is  the  only  public  office  he  has  ever 
held.     Mr.  Hopkins  is  one  of  the  best  natured  men  connected  with  the  present  House.     He  gives  a  scrutinizing 
attention  to  all  legislation,  and  no  man  comes  nearer  casting  a  correct  vote  on   all  questions  than  he.     He  is  a  well 
qualified  legislator,  and  is,  in  every  way,  one  of  the  strongest  men  in  the  Democratic  majority. 


JOSEPH  H.   CHRISTY. 


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R.  JOSEPH   H.    CHRISTY    is  the   Representative  from    Lafayette 

county — one  of  the  best  counties  in  the  State.     He  was  born  in  1839 

in  Lafayette  county,   where  he   was  educated.     When  yet  in  his  teens  he 

made  an  overland  trip  to  Salt  Lake   City,  walking  the  entire  distance,  and 

driving  an  ox  team  belonging  to  a  Government  supply  train. 

When  the  rebellion  broke  out  young  Christy  cast  his  fortunes  with  the 
South,  and  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Lexington,  in  the  fall  of  1861;  he 
joined  Shelby's  Brigade  in  1862,  and  after  enduring  the  hardships  of  three 
years  more  of  marching  and  fighting,  surrendered  at  Shreveport,  La. ,  in 
1865,  and  returned  to  his  native  county  and  entered  upon  farm  life  with 
renewed  energy  to  make  up  for  lost  time.  After  years  of  successful  farm- 
ing he  retired  to  Odessa,  a  pleasant  and  prosperous  town  of  Lafayette  county, 
where  he  now  resides.  In  1866  he  married  Miss  Marthena  Stapp,  of  Greentown  Valley.  Four  children  were  born 
to  the  union.  Mr.  Christy  never  sought  official  honors.  He,  however,  consented  to  make  the  race  for  Representa- 
tive last  fall,  and  was  elected  to  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  by  a  majority  of  over  800  votes.  He  belongs  to 
the  Ancient  Order  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  is  an  Elder  in  the  C,  P.  Church.  Mr.  Christy  is  one  of  the 
quiet  members  of  the  House,  but  no  county  can  boast  of  a  more  careful  or  painstaking  legislator  than  Lafayette 
county.  Mr.  Christy  occupied  a  seat  in  the  House  surrounded  by  Republican  members,  all  of  whom  admired  the 
stanch  old  Democrat  from  Lafayette. 


WILLIAM  R.    RUSSELL. 


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'ILLIAM  R.  RUSSELL,  of  Dade  county,  has  the  honor  of  being  the 
first  Democratic  Representative  sent  from  his  county  to  make  laws 
at  Jefferson  City,  in  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  was  born  in  the  county  he 
now  represents  forty-seven  years  ago  ;  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Dade 
county,  and  began  teaching  before  he  reached  his  majority.  He  was  Princi- 
pal of  the  Lockwood  public  school  two  terms,  and  of  the  Everton  public 
school  one  term. 

Mr.  Russell  was  elected  County  Treasurer  of  Dade  county  in  1874.  He 
is  a  minister  of  the  gospel,  and  at  the  time  of  his  election  to  the  Thirty-ninth 
General  Assembly  was  filling  the  pulpit  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian 
church  at  Everton.  In  1873  he  married  Miss  Ella  V.  Summers,  of  Cape 
Girardeau,  Missouri. 

William  R.  Russell  has  made  Dade  county  a  model  Representative,  and 
has  been  faithful  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  and  tireless  in  his  eflforts  in  assisting  his  brother  legislators  in  trying 
to  make  wholesome  laws  for  the  commonwealth.  No  member  of  the  House  paid  closer  attention  to  the  workings  of 
the  Assembly  than  "Russell  of  Dade."  His  long  experience  along  educational  lines  made  him  a  valuable  member  of 
the  Committee  on  University.  He  also  rendered  valuable  service  on  the  Committees  on  Labor  and  Benevolent  and 
Scientific  Institutions. 


PETER    C.  BREIl. 


ANDREW  county  is  represented  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly 
by  Peter  C.  Breit,  one  of  the  ablest  young  Republicans  in  Missouri. 
He  was  born  in  the  above  county  April  26,  1866,  and  has  there  passed  the 
greater  portion  of  his  life;  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
county  and  afterward  took  the  law  course  in  the  State  University.  Mr.  Breit 
is  located  at  Savannah,  and  enjoys  a  lucrative  practice  in  legal  affairs.  It 
was  in  1891-2  that  he  served  for  the  first  time  in  the  capacity  of  a  public 
servant,  his  people  electing  him  Assessor  of  Andrew  county.  Afterward  he 
was  elected  as  Representative  of  his  county  to  the  Thirty-eighth  General  As- 
sembly. He  is  shrewd  and  observing  in  his  manners,  and  therefore  makes 
but  few  of  the  mistakes  and  blunders  into  which  young  men  are  so  apt  to 
fall  in  their  initiative  venture  in  politics.  He  is  a  very  active  member  in 
legislative  aflfairs  and  spends  much  of  his  time  in  probing  into  the  hundreds 
of  bills  which  accumulate  during  the  work  of  every  session.  He  is  a  ready  debater  and  takes  an  active  part  in  the 
House  discussions.  "While  he  is  an  ardent  Republican,  he  is  nevertheless  a  man  who  takes  the  cori'ect  view  of  public 
men  and  matters  in  general.  In  his  own  language,  "I  am  not  in  politics  for  what  there  is  in  it,  as  so  many  men  say, 
but  I  am  in  it  because  I  have  an  ambition  to  serve  my  people  and  to  better,  if  I  can,  in  my  humble  way,  the  condi- 
tion of  humanity."  That  such  an  elegant  young  man  as  Mr.  Breit  should  be  unmarried  is  certainly  a  matter  of  con- 
jecture and  surprise — it  is,  in  fact,  about  the  only  serious  fault  that  can  be  alleged  against  him. 


HARVEY  E.  NEVILLE. 


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ARVBY  E.  NEVILLE  is  the  Representative  from  Miller  county  and  is 
one  of  the  Republican  minority  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 
He  is  forty-seven  years  old  and  was  born  in  Kentucky,  the  land  of 
statesmen,  poker  players  and  long  whiskies.  He  came  to  this  State  when 
he  was  only  one  year  old  and  has  resided  the  greater  portion  of  his  time  in 
Miller  and  Moniteau  counties.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  public 
schools  and  afterward  attended  the  Warrensburg  Normal,  which  equips  him 
with  a  prett)-  good  general  education.  He  taught  school  for  a  period  of  ten 
years  and  then  engaged  in  the  lumber  trade,  which  business  he  has  followed 
with  a  fair  amount  of  success.  Mr.  Neville  has  never  held  any  public  office 
until  the  present  one;  however,  he  is  the  vice-president  of  the  Miller  County 
Exchange  Bank  at  Olean.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Ida  Morris,  of  Pleasant 
Mount,  Mo.,  but  has  no  children. 

Mr.  Neville  is  a  quiet  man  and  seldom  raises  his  voice  in  the  discussions 
on  the  floor  of  the  House,  but  he  is  nevertheless  a  painstaking  and  capable  legislator,  and  a  strong  man  as  one  of  the 
Republican  minority. 


JOSEPH  C.   O'DELL. 


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EYNOLDS  COUNTY  is  represented  in  the  present  Assembly  by  J.  C. 
O'Dell,  an  able  and  thoroughbred  Democrat.  He  was  born  in  the 
county  which  he  now  represents  forty-six  years  ago,  and  has  resided 
there  the  greater  portion  of  his  life.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  public 
schools  and  has  made  the  most  of  his  opportunities,  something  which  cannot 
be  said  for  every  man.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Parmelia  I.  Matkin  of  Webbs 
Creek,  Reynolds  county,  and  is  the  father  of  seven  children,  all  of  whom  are 
living.  Mr.  O'Dell's  father  died  when  he  himself  was  only  two  years  old, 
thus  leaving  him  to  work  out  a  livelihood  with  his  mother  as  best  he  could. 
For  a  time  the  road  of  poverty  was  a  hard  one  to  travel — his  mother  hired 
him  out  for  twenty-five  cents  a  day,  but  finally  he  grew  to  manhood  and 
adopted  the  carpenter's  trade  as  a  business,  which  vocation  he  followed  for  seven  years.  He  then  invested  his  earn- 
ings in  land,  and  to-day  owns  five  hundred  and  forty  acres  in  his  native  county,  three  hundred  of  which 
are  in  cultivation,  and  from  which  he  and  his  family  succeed  in  making  a  very  respectable  living.  Mr.  O'Dell  has 
been  Judge  of  the  Reynolds  County  Court  for  two  terms  and  served  in  the  Thirty-fourth  and  Thirty -eighth  General  Assem- 
blies, being  re-elected  to  the  present  one.  At  other  times  he  has  been  employed  on  the  Missouri  Southern  railroad.  He  is  a 
sterling  Democrat  and  an  efficient  and  capable  representative  of  his  county.  He  made  several  pointed  speeches  on 
the  floor  of  the  House  during  the  session  of  '97. 


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UNKLIN  county  is  represented  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly 
by  J.  Price  Tribble,  one  of  the  most  stalwart  and  uncompromising 
young  Democrats  in  the  State.  His  father  was  an  ardent  Confederate  sol- 
dier, and  a  man  who  fought  valiantly  and  courageously  for  the  "  Lost 
Cause."  It  is  therefore  but  natural  that  his  son,  the  present  Representative 
from  Dunklin  county,  should  have  in  him  some  of  that  inherent  fire  and 
zeal  which  characterized  the  men  who  followed  the  defeated  though  glorious 
flag  of  Lee.  Mr.  Tribble  takes  a  very  active  part  in  the  House  debates,  and 
is  always  listened  to  with  the  greatest  courtesy  and  respect.  He  was  born 
in  Oregon  county,  Missouri,  reared  on  a  farm  and  educated  in  his  native 
county.  The  fact  that,  in  his  boyhood  days,  he  followed  the  plow  and 
swung  the  ax  may  account  for  his  ruggedness  in  general,  and  his  close  vig- 
ilance for  the  interests  of  men  who  make  their  living  by  tilling  the  soil.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  Probate  Clerk 
in  his  county,  in  which  capacity  he  served  with  honesty  and  efficiency.  Mr.  Tribble  is  bat  thirty-four  years  old,  was 
married  to  Miss  Annie  E.  Blackwell,  of  Wayne  county,  and  two  bright  little  boys  bless  their  union.  He  is  a  member 
of  Pioneer  Lodge,  No.  165,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  also  the  Rebekah  and  Encampment  Lodge  of  that  Order,  andofKennett 
Lodge,  No.  68,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.  Representing  Dunklin  county  in  the  present  Assembly  may  be  said  to  be  his  first  purely 
political  venture.  However,  being  strong  physically,  in  thorough  accord  with  the  principles  of  his  party,  and  being 
of  an  ambitious  nature,  he  may  at  no  distant  day  be  successful  in  even  a  higher  distinction  in  the  ranks  of  his  party. 


B.   C.  JONES. 


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I UTLER  county  is  represented  in  the  present  House  of  Representatives 
by  B.  C.  Jones,  who  resides  at  Poplar  Bluff.  Mr,  Jones  is  rather  a 
quiet  man,  but  nevertheless  a  Democrat  of  the  truest  blue.  He  is  a  physi- 
cian by  profession.  Mr.  Jones  was  born  in  Graves  county,  Kentucky,  sixty 
years  ago,  and  lived  in  that  State  and  Western  Tennessee  during  the  early 
part  of  his  life,  and  came  to  Missouri  in  1856.  Mr.  Jones  is  getting  on  "the 
shady  side  of  life,"  but  he  is  yet  as  active  and  energetic  as  many  men  who 
are  much  his  junior  in  years.  His  first  marriage  was  to  Miss  M.  E.  Para- 
more,  of  Bloomfield,  Mo.,  and  afterward  to  Miss  Susie  E.  Dukes,  of  Poplar 
Bluff.  He  has  two  sons  and  an  adopted  daughter.  His  first  official  expe- 
rience was  that  of  Mayor  of  the  city  in  which  he  resides  from  1891  to  1893. 
When  the  war  broke  out,  and  the  Southern  States  severed  their  allegiance  to  the  flag,  Mr.  Jones  enlisted  in  their 
behalf,  and  was  with  the  ragged  though  patriotic  soldier  of  the  South  unto  his  defeat;  he  served  as  Captain  in  the 
Seventh  Missouri  Cavalry;  is  a  firm  and  conscientious  believer  in  the  Christian  religion,  although  not  a  member  of 
any  church.  Mr.  Jones  is  an  economical  legislator,  and  acts  with  the  greatest  care  and  discretion  in  all  matters  that 
come  before  the  Assembly.  He  never  takes  any  active  part  in  the  House  wrangles,  but  rests  his  part  with  casting,  a$ 
best  he  can,  an  intelligent  vote.     He  is  a  good  man  and  a  safe  Representative. 


JOHN  W.  SWEANEY. 


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OHN  W.  SWEANEY  was  born  in  Hancock  county,  111.,  November  29, 

[862,  and  is  now  a  resident  of  Red  Ridge,  Jackson  county,  Mo.     He 

received  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Jackson  county;  took  a 

business  course  in  Spaulding's  Commercial  College,  after  which  he  engaged 

in  agricultural  pursuits. 

For  several  years  Mr.  Sweaney  was  Postmaster  at  Red  Ridge,  Mo. ;  has 
always  taken  a  lively  interest  in  politics  and  has  been  identified  with  the 
People's  party  of  Jackson  county  for  the  past  few  years.     Mr.  Sweaney  was 
nominated  by  the  Populists  and  Democrats  of  the  Second  district  of  Jackson 
county  and  was  elected  by  a  majority  of  696  to  the  Thirty-ninth  General 
Assembly.     He  was  rarely  absent  from  his  seat  in  the  House  during  legisla- 
tive hours,  and  was  at  all  times  conscientious  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties.     He  was  a  member  of  the  following  com- 
mittees:   Education,  Roads  and  Highways,  Miscellaneous  and  Unfinished  Business.    Also  Chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Fish  and  Game,  a  new  committee  created  by  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


GEORGE  M.  LONDON. 


GEO.  M.  LONDON  is  the  rock-ribbed  silver  Democrat  who  represents 
Madison  county  in  the  present  Legislature.  He  was  born  and  reared 
in  the  county  which  he  represents  and  has  lived  among  its  hospitable  people 
all  his  life.  He  is  only  thirty-three  years  old;  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  in  Madison  county  and  afterward  completed  his  course  at  Farming- 
ton  College;  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Whitmer  in  1893  and  is  the  father 
of  a  bright  little  girl,  twelve  months  old.  His  business  is  that  of  a  farmer 
and  merchant,  and  during  the  life  of  the  Farmers'  Alliance  was  for  a 
number  of  years  its  state  organizer.  He  is  at  present  a  committeeman  in  the 
Twenty-fourth  Congressional  district.  Mr.  London  is  a  man  who  is  averse 
to  the  notoriety  that  is  gained  through  constant  appearance  on  the  floor  and 
does  not  take  any  very  active  part  in  the  parliamentary  wrangles  and  fiery 
debates.  He  is,  however,  a  man  with  the  faculty  of  getting  into  the  gist  of  a  matter  on  short  notice  and  is  in  every 
sense  of  the  word  one  of  the  substantial  and  reliable  members  of  the  present  Assembly.  In  all  this  State  there  is 
not  a  more  firm  believer  in  the  principles  of  "Old  Hickory"  Jackson  than  George  M.  London.  He  is  also  a  man  of 
charming  personality,  jovial  in  nature  and  always  ready  with  some  happy  phrase  or  greeting — he's  all  right. 


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WILLIAM  F.  lOHNSTON. 


WILLIAM  F.  JOHNSTON  is  the  Representative  from  Cooper  county, 
one  of  the  most  historic  and  famed  counties  in  the  great  common- 
wealth of  Missouri;  is  forty-six  years  old  and  a  man  of  rugged  appearance 
and  personality;  was  reared  in  Cooper  county,  educated  in  its  public  schools 
and  married  one  of  its  many  charming  girls,  and  in  short  grew  to  be  a  manly 
man  and  a  stalwart  Democrat — all  amid  the  uplifting  and  refining  influ- 
ences of  the  good  people  of  his  native  county. 
.'fi^^^^^^^^mmprnmi^^^^^^mm  Mrs.    Johustou's    maiden    name   was   Annie   Rogers,    daughter  of  Dr. 

tif^^^^^^lL        ^^^^ffll  Rogers,  of  Cooper  county,  and  seven  bright  children  bless  the  union. 

Mr.  Johnston  ranks  as  one  of  the  most  reliable  and  cool-headed  Demo- 
crats in  the  Lower  House;  he  is  of  a  calculating  temperament  and  seems  to 
weigh  every  proposition  in  his  own  mind  before  he  renders  his  decision  upon 
it.  This  is  the  first  time  that  he  has  ever  been  a  member  of  the  Legislature, 
his  only  other  venture  of  a  political  nature  being  that  of  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  of  Prairie  Home  township  in  his  native 
county;  is  Chairman  of  the  Penitentiary  Committee  and  also  an  influential  member  of  the  Committee  on  Eleemosy- 
nary Institutions.  In  religion  he  is  a  member  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church  and  one  of  the  Elders  of  his 
congregation,  New  Salem. 

Mr.  Johnston  seldom  takes  hand  in  the  fiery,  rough  and  ready  debates  of  the  House,  yet  he  will  ever  be  remem- 
bered as  one  of  the  most  substantial  and  reliable  members  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


JOHN  ELBERT    ORGAN. 


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ENT  county  is  represented  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  by 
John  Elbert  Organ,  one  of  the  sturdiest  old  veteran  Democrats  that 
ever  came  to  the  State  Capital.  He  was  born  in  Champaign  county,  Ohio, 
on  April  7th,  1838,  and  vs^as  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  that  State  and 
Indiana.  He  went  from  Ohio  to  Grant  county,  Indiana,  in  1848;  from  that 
county  removed  to  White  county,  in  the  same  State,  in  1849,  ^"d  from 
thence,  in  1858,  came  to  Missouri.  He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Martha  L.  Burkett,  of  Phelps  county,  Mo.,  August  20th,  1867,  and  is  the 
father  of  four  children,  all  of  whom  are  living.  He  is  a  newspaper  pub- 
lisher and  farmer  by  occupation;  was  Surveyor  of  Phelps  county  from  1859 
to  i86r,  and  elected  to  the  Legislature  from  Dent  county  in  1874,  1878,  1884 
and  1896 ;  was  also  Presidential  Elector  on  the  Democratic  ticket  in  1880. 
He  was  in  the  late  unpleasantness  as  a  Confederate  soldier  from  beginning 
to  end  ;  entered  the  cavalry  regiment  of  McBride's  division,  Missouri  State 
Guard,  April  7th,  1861  ;  was  prisoner  of  war,  being  captured  at  West  Plains, 
Mo.,  in  March,  1862,  and  sent  to  Gratiot  Street  Prison, St.  Louis  ;  from  there  he  was  transported  to  Alton  111.,  Military 
Prison  in  May,  1862  ;  he  was  exchanged  at  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  in  September  of  the  same  year  ;  he  then  joined  Com- 
pany E,  Eighth  Missouri  Infantry,  Confederate  States  Army,  in  Arkansas  ;  he  was  in  the  battles  of  Prairie  Grove, 
Little  Rock  and  Jenkins  Ferry,  Ark.,  and  Pleasant  Hill,  La.,  and  several  skirmishes  ;  was  Second  Lieutenant  of 
Cavalry  and  Orderly  Sergeant  of  Infantry  ;  surrendered  at  Shreveport,  La.,  June  7th,  1865.  He  is  one  of  the  safest 
legislators  in  the  present  Assembly,  and  stands  for  economy  in  all  things.  His  county  is  represented  by  a  man  who 
will  guard  its  interests  carefully  and  conscientiously  in  all  legislative  matters.  » 


WILLIAM  R.  HALE. 


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HE  subjoined  is  a  likeness  of  William  R.  Hale,  one  of  the  Populist 


born  in  this  State  on  the  13th  day  of  August,  1849,  ^^d  has  resided  here  all 
his  life — he  is  therefore  fully  acquainted  with  the  wants  and  needs  of  Mis- 
souri people.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  and  by  being  an 
observing  man  in  nature,  has  managed  to  inform  himself  pretty  well  on 
things  in  general.  He  is  a  farmer,  and  is  alive  to  the  interests  and  welfare 
of  this  class.  Mr.  Hale  has  always  had  political  ideas  of  his  own,  yet  this 
is  the  first  political  office  he  has  ever  held  in  his  life.  He  believes  firmly  in 
the  principles  of  the  Populist  party,  but  so  far  as  his  vote  is  concerned  on 
legislative  matters  he  is  broad  and  liberal  minded,  and  votes  for  what  he 
considers  the  interest  of  the  people,  irrespective  of  party.  He  married 
Miss  Susie  A.  Yowell,  of  Phelps  county,  and  is  the  father  of  ten  children, 
seven  boys  and  three  girls.  Though  his  sons  are  not  yet  old  enough,  he  declares  that  they  will  all  become  adherents 
to  his  own  political  faith.  Mr.  Hale  is  a  strong  man  and  a  safe  legislator,  and  the  people  of  Phelps  county  would  do 
well  to  return  him  to  the  Legislature  in  the  future. 


THOMAS  W.  HAWKINS. 


THIS  is  a  likeness  of  one  of  Missouri's  veteran  Democrats,  Judge  Thomas 
W.  Hawkins,  who  is  the  Representative  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General 
Assembly  from  Marion  county.  He  was  born  sixty-seven  years  ago  in  Bour- 
bon county,  Kentucky,  and  grew  into  manhood  in  the  State  which  gave  to 
Missouri  her  imperial  "Bill  Stone"  and  other  great  statesmen.  Judge 
Hawkins  received  his  education  in  Transylvania  University,  and,  being  a 
great  student  and  close  observer,  is  today  one  of  the  best  informed  men  in 
the  State,  and  consequently  is  a  very  valuable  man  in  the  Assembly.  He 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Anna  B.  Newland,  of  Kentucky,  and  is  the 
father  of  eight  bright  and  industrious  children.  Judge  Hawkins  is  an  attor- 
ney by  profession.  He  has  also  held  a  number  of  responsible  public  posi- 
tions ;  served  as  Judge  of  the  Probate  Court  of  Hannibal,  was  elected  Pre- 
siding Judge  of  Marion  county,  was  Mayor  of  the  city  of  Hannibal  in  1875,  and  Clerk  of  the  Marion  county  Circuit 
Court  from  1878  to  1895.  Although  Judge  Hawkins  is  becoming  somewhat  aged,  the  hand  of  Time  has  not  as  yet 
stilled  his  energy  or  activity  ;  he  is  still  vigorous  and  can  come  nearer  telling  the  substance  of  the  bills  introduced 
in  the  House  than  any  man  of  his  years  in  the  Thirty-ninth  Assembly.  He  has  a  charming  personality,  and  every 
man  connected  with  the  body  of  which  he  is  a  member  has  a  deep-grounded  respect  for  him.  The  Judge  is  a  sterling 
Democrat,  an  honorable  and  conscientious  gentleman,  and  a  credit  to  the  county  which  sent  him  to  the  Missouri 
Legislature  to  represent  her  people  and  their  interests. 


LON  B.    WILLIAMS. 


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^  NE  of  the  substantial  young  Democrats  on  the  floor  of  the  House  in 
the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  is  Lon  B.  Williams,  the  Repre- 
sentative from  Scott  county.  He  hails  from  Arkansas,  where  he  was  born 
twenty-seven  years  ago.  He  comes  of  one  of  the  oldest  and  foremost  fami- 
lies of  Kentucky.  However,  his  days  have  been  passed  in  three  States, 
in  his  native  State,  Arkansas,  in  Kentucky  and  in  the  State  in  which  he  now 
resides.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  and  has  improved  his 
opportunities  as  best  he  could.  He  left  Arkansas  some  fifteen  years  ago  and 
went  to  Kentucky,  the  State  of  Colonels  ;  from  there  he  came  to  Missouri  in 
1881,  and  has  resided  here  ever  since.  As  yet  he  declares  that  he  has  made 
love  to  no  womankind,  therefore  is  in  a  state  of  single  blessedness.  He  has 
taken  an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  House  ever  since  the  session 
began  ;  he  is  a  valuable  member  on  the  Committee  on  Agriculture  and  also  on  Retrenchment  and  Reform.  He  is  the 
author  of  House  bill  No.  54,  to  regulate  freight  rates  on  watermelons  and  to  compel  companies  to  carry  peddling 
cars  on  local  trains ;  also  a  bill  to  increase  the  liabilities  of  stockholders  of  corporations.  His  position  is  emphat- 
ically against  trusts  and  combines,  and  he  has  cast  all  his  votes  in  this  direction.  He  is  a  farmer,  and  therefore 
closely  allied  to  their  interests.  He  is  one  of  the  youngest  members  on  the  floor  of  the  House,  and  frequently  takes 
part  in  the  discussions.  His  election  is  a  compliment  to  him,  and,  as  he  is  yet  a  young  man  with  ambition  and 
ability,  will  some  day  climb  to  a  higher  stage  of  fame. 


LEONIDAS  B.    WOODS. 


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HE  Republican  minority  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  has  in 
it  no  abler  young  man  than  Leonidas  B.  Woods,  of  Mercer  county. 
Mr.  Woods  was  born  and  reared  in  the  county  which  he  now  represents,  and 
is  twenty-eight  years  old.  He  received  his  education  at  Valparaiso,  Ind., 
and  has  followed  the  vocation  of  a  public  school  teacher  quite  actively, 
besides  also  being  a  farmer.  He  is  a  young  man  who  has  made  success  out 
of  adversity,  fortune  out  of  the  things  that  can  mean  such  varied  and  pecu- 
liar destinies  for  a  young  man  who  braves  the  great  sea  of  life  with  his  own 
oars.  Mr.  Woods  takes  an  active  part  in  all  the  discussions  which  come 
before  the  House,  is  an  excellent  parliamentarian  and  enjoys  the  respect  and 
confidence  of  all  members,  irrespective  of  party  affiliation.  He  has  made 
many  friends  among  the  Democrats,  from  the  fact  that  his  judgment  and 
position  upon  a  measure  is  not  determined  by  the  so-called  party  line.  He 
gives  it  his  conscientious  consideration  and  then  forms  his  decision  accord- 
ingly. As  a  debater  he  has  an  exceptionally  ready  command  of  language, 
and  is  a  close  reasoner  and  possesses  a  remarkable  power  of  analysis.  As  yet  Mr.  Woods  is  not  a  married  man,  but  if 
he  hopes  to  remain  in  that  condition  long  he  will  have  to  quit  coming  to  the  Missouri  Legislature,  for  Jefferson  City 
has  a  lot  of  charming  girls  whose  womanly  beauty  and  sweetness  no  young  man  can  resist  for  any  great  length  of 
time — even  though  he  be  a  Republican.  Mr.  Woods,  it  can  justly  be  said,  is  one  of  the  most  substantial  men  in  the 
present  Assembly  and  an  honor  to  the  minority. 


JOHN  L.  BITTINGER. 


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AJ.  JOHN  L.  BITTINGER,  Representative  from  the  First  District  of 
Buchanan  county,  and  editor  of  the  St.  Joseph  Herald,  was  born  near 
Chambersburg,  Pa.,  November  28,  1833,  His  parents  subsequently- 
removed  to  Rowsburg,  a  village  at  that  time  in  Wayne,  now  Ashland  county, 
Ohio,  where  he  attended  the  village  school  for  five  years,  but  on  the  death 
of  his  father,  when  he  was  twelve  years  old,  he  secured  employment  with  a 
farmer  in  the  vicinity  of  his  home.  This  farmer,  in  1849,  removed  to  Green 
county,  Wisconsin,  and  took  the  lad  with  him.  There  for  three  years  he 
worked  on  a  farm,  attending  the  country  school  in  winter,  until  his  knowl- 
edge outgrew  the  limited  capacities  of  the  teacher.  In  1852  he  entered  the 
office  of  the  Journal  at  Freeport,  Illinois,  to  learn  the  art  of  printing.  At  the 
end  of  six  months  he  had  so  far  advanced  that  he  was  made  foreman  of  the 
office,  and  during  the  remainder  of  his  three  years'  term  of  apprenticeship 
made  all  the  selections  for  the  paper,  collected  and  wrote  the  local  news,  and 
assisted  largely  in  the  editorial  work.  In  1854  he  was  selected  as  a  delegate  to  the  Congressional  Convention  at  Rock- 
ford,  Illinois,  which  nominated  for  Congress  for  a  second  term  Hon.  Elihu  B.  Washburne,  who  had  previously  been 
elected  as  a  Whig,  but  who,  at  this  convention,  was  nominated  as  a  Republican.  This  was  the  beginning  of  the 
organization  of  the  Republican  party  in  Illinois.  In  1855  Mr.  Bittioger  went  to  St.  Louis  and  accepted  the  position  of 
assistant  foreman  of  the  Intelligencer,  and  in  1857  became  foreman  of  the  Democrat  of  that  city,  of  which  the  late 
Gov.  B.  Gratz  Brown  was  then  editor.  The  following  year  he  was  chosen  a  delegate  from  the  St.  Louis  Typographi- 
cal Union  to  the  National  Typographical  Union,  which  assembled  that  year  in  Chicago,  and  represented  the  Union  at 


JOHN  L.  BITTINGER.— Continued, 
the  convention  the  next  year  in  Boston.  He  also,  in  that  year,  became  publisher  of  the  St.  Louis  Evening  Bulletin. 
Early  in  i860  he  disposed  of  his  interest  in  that  paper,  and  in  June  removed  to  St.  Joseph,  where  he  has  since 
resided.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the  presidential  campaign  of  that  year,  and  soon  after  the  inauguration  of  Presi- 
dent Lincoln,  Mr.  Bittinger,  on  the  recommendation  of  Gen.  Francis  P.  Blair,  Jr.,  was  appointed  Postmaster  of  St. 
Joseph,  then  a  most  responsible  position.  The  Civil  War  had  just  begun,  and  Mr.  Bittinger  was  looked  to  by  his 
party  for  all  information  and  recommendations  from  his  section  of  the  State,  and  the  utmost  confidence  was  reposed 
in  his  judgment  by  the  leaders  of  the  party.  In  the  summer  of  1861  he  left  the  management  of  postal  affairs  to  his 
deputy  and  clerks,  and  volunteered  for  army  service  as  a  private,  but  after  a  few  months  he  was  commissioned  Major 
and  made  Aid-de-Camp  to  Gen.  Willard  P.  Hall,  the  Commander  of  the  Department  of  Northwest  Missouri.  In  1862 
he  was  a  delegate  to  the  first  Republican  State  Convention  held  in  Missouri,  served  as  its  secretary,  and  was  made  a 
member  of  the  State  Central  Committee,  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  was  chosen  a  member  of  the  Legislature,  defeat- 
ing Hon.  Henry  M.  Vories,  afterward  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court.  He  was  made  Speaker  pro  tem.  of  the  House,  and 
was  regarded  as  one  of  the  leaders  on  the  floor.  In  1862  he  purchased  a  half  interest  in  the  St.  Joseph  Herald, 
and,  becoming  its  managing  editor,  soon  made  the  paper  the  most  powerful  and  influential  journal  west  of  St.  Louis. 
In  1864  he  was  renominated  for  Representative,  but  declined.  Subsequently  he  was  nominated  for  the  Senate,  but 
was  forced  to  decline  that  honor  because  his  paper  needed  all  his  attention.  In  1870  Mr.  Bittinger  accepted  the  nomi- 
nation for  Representative,  and  was  elected.  He  was  elected  in  1872  and  1874,  when  he  again  retired,  and  did  not 
again  accept  the  position  of  Representative  until  1894,  and  was  re-elected  in  1896.  Mr.  Bittinger  was  a  delegate  to 
the  National  Republican  Conventions  of  1872  at  Philadelphia,  and  of  1896  at  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Bittinger  made  the  tour 
of  Europe  in  1886,  and  wrote  a  series  of  letters  from  the  various  countries  visited,  which  he  has  often  been  urged  to 
publish  in  a  volume.  His  letters  from  Cuba  in  1874  also  attracted  wide  attention.  Mr.  Bittinger's  long  connection 
with  the  press  of  Missouri  and  his  active  participation  in  public  affairs  of  the  State  have  given  him  a  wide  acquaint- 
ance with  leading  men,  and  a  commanding  influence.  In  the  House  of  Representatives  he  has  proved  himself  a  con- 
servative, safe  legislator.     He  speaks  with  a  power  that  always  commands  attention,  and  has  the  respect  of  all  parties. 


WILLIAM  H.    TRUITT,  JR. 


AMONG  the  young  Democrats  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly 
there  are  none  who  are  looked  upon  with  more  respect  than  Will  H. 
Truitt,  the  Representative  from  Boone  county.  Mr.  Truitt  was  born  and 
reared  in  Callaway  county,  where,  upon  his  father's  farm,  he  learned  the 
great  lesson  of  what  it  means  to  work — that  starting  place  and  kindergarten 
of  so  many  of  America's  illustrious  and  immortal  men.  Mr.  Truitt  is  thirty- 
one  years  of  age.  He  began  his  education  in  the  common  schools  of 
the  "Kingdom  of  Callaway,"  and  afterward  completed  it  in  the  State 
University.  He  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Nellie  Ellis,  of  Boone 
county,  and  has  two  bright  little  children— a  boy  and  a  girl.  Being  from 
Boone  county,  his  position  is  somewhat  important  in  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, from  the  fact  that  he  is  regarded  as  a  sort  of  "guardian  angel"  of  the  State  University.  Mr.  Truitt  is  a 
lawyer  by  profession,  and  enjoys  a  large  and  lucrative  practice  in  Columbia,  where  he  is  located.  He  is  one  of 
the  best  known  men  on  the  floor  of  the  House,  from  the  fact  that  he  has  taken  a  very  active  part  in  all  legislation 
from  the  very  beginning  of  the  session.  He  is  polished  in  manner,  jovial  in  disposition,  and  enjoys  the  good  will  and 
respect  of  all  who  know  him.  He  is  a  ready  debater,  and  his  county  has  made  no  mistake  in  selecting  him  to  repre- 
sent her  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


JAMES  BRADLEY. 


AUDRAIN  COUNTY,  the  home  of  Sam  B.  Cook,  the  man  who  is  respon- 
sible, more  than  any  other,  for  the  great  triumph  of  Bryan  and  Democ- 
racy in  Missouri,  is  represented  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  by 
that  patriarchal  and  rock-ribbed  old  Democrat,  James  Bradley.  Mr.  Brad- 
"  ley  was  born  in  Randolph  county,  September  15,  1835  ;  educated  at  McGee 
College,  in  Macon  county,  and  has  been  content  to  cast  his  lot  and  fortune 
in  this  the  greatest  State  in  the  Union — Missouri.  Mr.  Bradley  was  married 
to  Miss  M.  E.  Baker,  of  Randolph  county,  and  five  children  cheer  and  com- 
fort their  approaching  old  age.  Mr.  Bradley's  main  vocation  is  that  of  a 
minister  of  the  gospel,  but  he  turns  aside  from  his  holy  mission  long  enough, 
once  in  a  while,  to  put  in  some  good  licks  for  the  principles  and  doctrines  for 
which  the  immortal  Jefferson  lived  and  died.  Mr.  Bradley  does  not  take  any 
very  active  part  in  the  House  wrangles  and  debates,  but  when  he  does  talk 
he  has  the  respect  and  close  attention  of  the  entire  audience.  He  believes 
in  strict  econom)'  in  public  expenditures  and  has  already  gained  a  sort  of  a  "watch  dog"  reputation.  He  weighs  every 
proposition  carefully  and  coolly  before  he  renders  his  decision,  and  may  justly  be  termed  one  of  the  best,  most  con- 
servative and  substantial  members  on  the  floor  of  the  House.  Mr.  Bradley  followed  the  flag:  of  the  great  Lee  in  the 
late  war,  and  has  the  openness  and  candor  of  those  gallant  men  whose  hair  is  whitened  with  age  and  worldly  service, 
and  who  will  all  soon  answer  the  call  of  that  Greater  Commander,  Almighty  God. 

Rev.  James  Bradley,  as  he  might  very  properly  be  styled,  has  literary  ability  of  a  high  order,  and  is  the  author 
of  that  deservedly  popular  book,  "The  Confederate  Mail  Carrier." 

In  short,  it  may  be  truly  said  of  the  man  whose  likeness  adorns  this  page,  that  he  is  an  honor  both  to  his  holy 
calling  and  to  the  great  county  he  represents  in  the  Legislature. 


VIRGIL  A.   O'BANNON. 


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'IRGIL  A.  O'BANNON  is  the  long-moustached,  rock-ribbed  little  Dem- 
ocrat who  represents  Wayne  county  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General 
Assembly.  He  is  forty-one  years  old,  and  was  born  in  St.  Francois  county. 
Mr.  O'Bannon,  in  his  youth,  had  but  limited  educational  advantages, 
above  what  the  common  schools  afforded,  yet  by  industry  and  close  appli- 
cation he  has  managed  to  provide  himself  with  a  general  knowledge  and 
practical  understanding  of  things  which  fully  qualifies  him  for  the  perform- 
ance of  the  duties  of  his  present  position. 

He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Dotie  Rhodes,  and  is  the  father  of 
eight  children.  He  has  never  held  any  official  position  except  the  present  one  as  Representative.  In  politics  he 
has  always  been  an  enthusiastic  and  outspoken  Democrat. 

By  occupation  Mr.  O'Bannon  is  a  lumberman,  and  also  owns  and  operates  a  saw-mill  in  his  home  county,  which 
is  famous  as  a  lumber  center.  He  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  (South).  Mr. 
O'Bannon  has  the  reputation  of  being  the  greatest  "Previous  Question  mover"  in  the  House.  Personally  he  is  a  very 
amiable  gentleman,  and  has  a  host  of  friends  who  admire  his  jovial  disposition  and  general  good  fellowship. 


WILLIAM  H.   THOMAS. 


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NE  of  the  sturdy  Populists  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  is 
William  H.  Thomas,  the  Representative  from  Douglass  county.  Mr. 
Thomas  is  fifty-six  years  old  and  was  born  in  Fayette  county,  Indiana  ;  left 
the  State  of  his  birth  in  early  days,  located  in  Illinois,  and,  thirteen  years 
ago,  came  to  Missouri  and  settled  down  in  Douglass  county  ;  was  educated 
in  the  common  schools  of  his  native  State,  and  has  made  the  best  out  of  the 
opportunities  which  fate  has  thrown  in  his  pathway.  In  1862  he  volun- 
teered in  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fifth  Regiment,  Illinois  Infantry, 
and  served  three  years  with  distinction. 

Mr.  Thomas  is  a  farmer  and  takes  a  keen  interest  in  all  legislation 

•which  tends  to  better  the  condition  of  the  industrial  classes.     In  politics  he 

•  is  distinctly  a  man  of  the  Jerry  Simpson  faith,  yet  has  a  liberality  of  views 

on  all  questions,  irrespective  of  party  caste.     He  was  married  to  Miss  Cora 

Turner,  of  Faiimount,  111.,  and  eight  children  have  been  born  to  their  union.     Mr.  Thomas  is  a  man  of  considerable 

legislative  experience,  having  been  a  member  of  the  Thirty-sixth  General  Assembly.     He  takes  no  part  in  the  hot 

debates  of  the  House,  but  keeps  up  a  keen  and  observing  interest  in  everything  which  comes  before  it. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  man  of  the  highest  integrity,  and  performs  his  duty  in  a  plain,  unassuming  and 
conscientious  way.     He  is  a  man  whom  it  is  safe  for  any  county  to  send  to  the  Legislature  of  Missouri. 


PRICHARD  B.    HOOD. 


P  RICHARD  B.  HOOD  represents  Barry  county  in  this  the  Thirty- 
ninth  General  Assembly.  He  was  born  at  Cloverdale,  Putnam 
county,  Indiana,  thirty  years  ago.  However,  at  eight  years  of  age,  he  left 
his  native  State  and  came  to  Missouri  to  sink  or  swim  with  her  people. 

His  politics  are  Populistic,  is  liberal  in  his  views  and  opinions  ;  and,  as 
some  of  his  friends  describe  him,  is  a  genial,  whole-souled  fellow.  He  was 
educated  in  the  Cassville  High  School,  and  later  on  attended  the  Springfield 
Normal;  he  is  finely  equipped  for  the  pursuit  of  his  profession,  that  of  a 
school  teacher,  which  he  follows  more  or  less  in  the  county  he  now  repre. 
sents  in  the  Legislature.  Mr.  Hood  never  held  any  political  ofiBce  before,  his  present  position  being  his  first  expe- 
rience in  public  life.  He  is,  personally,  very  agreeable,  and  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  legislation  ever  since  the 
session  began,  and  often  takes  part  in  the  House  discussions. 

He  is  the  author  of  several  bills  of  more  or  less  importance.  At  present  he  is  unma:rried,  and  being  non-commit- 
tal on  the  subject,  it  is  impossible  to  tell  whether  he  has  planned  any  schemes  against  any  fair  damsel  or  not.  Mr. 
Hood,  however,  has  many  warm  friends  among  the  members  of  the  House,  and  is,  in  every  sense  of  the  word,  an 
able  legislator. 


SIMEON  DAVIDSON. 


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HE  people  of  Worth  county  have  for  their  standard  bearer  in  the  pres- 
ent Missouri  Legislature  Simeon    Davidson,  a  Democrat  of  the  truest 
kind.     Mr.  Davidson  was  born  in  Tuscarawas  county,  Ohio,  sixty-three  years 
ago.     He  left  Ohio  in  1849  and  went  to  Jay  county,  Indiana;  in  1855  he  went 
to  Iowa,  and  from  thence  came  to  Missouri  in  1865. 

Mr.  Davidson  received  his  education  principally  in  his  native  state,  Ohio. 

His  business  is  that  of  a  farmer  and  stockraiser,  and  in  this  line  he  has  been 

quite  successful.     He  is  ever  ready  to  lend  his  vote  to  any  measure  which 

tends  to  relieve  the  farmer  in  any  way  from  the  distressing  conditions  which 

surround  him.     This  is  not  his  first  political  experience :  he  was  elected 

County  Collector  of  Worth  county  from  1877  to  1878,  and  in  1896  was  elected 

to  the  position  of  Representative,  the  duty  which  he  is  now  performing.     He 

was  married  to  Miss  Sarah  E.  Beck,  a  native  of  Ohio,  and  is  the  father  of 

nine  children.     Mr.  Davidson  is  an  ardent  Democrat  in  the  most  enthusiastic  sense  of  the  word,  and  is  an  able 

defender  of  the  Chicago  platform,  upon  which  William  J.  Bryan  stood,  and  upon  which  Gibraltar  of  political  principles 

he  was  given  over  six  million  votes. 

Simeon  Davidson  is  a  man  who  will  keep  a  good  guardianship  over  the  interests  of  Worth  county  in  the  Thirty- 
ninth  General  Assembly. 


DR.    W.  F.    COLLIER, 


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R.  W.  F.  COLLIER  is  the  Democrat  who  represents  Shannon  county 
in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  He  is  a  native  and  typical 
Missourian,  and  was  born  forty-four  years  ago.  He  has  never  left  his 
native  heath,  but  has  been  content  to  rest  his  destiny  and  fortunes  with 
the  people  among  whom  he  grew  to  manhood,  and  who  have  seen  fit  to 
elevate  him  to  honorable  and  responsible  positions  a  number  of  times.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  but  being  ambitious  to  become  a  physi- 
cian he  graduated  himself  in  that  profession  and  has  practiced  with  success 
in  Shannon  county.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Lucy  Stout,  and  is  the  father 
of  three  children. 

In  politics  Dr.  Collier  has  always  been  an  enthusiastic  and  ardent  Demo- 
crat, who  thoroughly  believes  that  the  Chicago  platform  represents  the  best 
interests  of  the  great  American  people,  and  that  the  peerless  William  J. 
Bryan,  "the  boy  orator  of  the  Platte,"  is  the  statesman  and  leader  of  the 
times  in  American  politics.     Dr.  Collier  was  a  member  of  the  Thirty-fourth  and  Thirty-sixth  General  Assemblies,  and 
was  elected  to  the  same  position  in  1896.     It  is  this  extensive  legislative  experience  that  makes  him  an  almost 
invaluable  member  in  the  present  Assembly. 

Personally  Dr.  Collier  is  a  quiet  man  and  he  has  made  many  warm  friends  among  those  who  enjoy  his  acquain- 
tance. He  is  a  careful  and  painstaking  legislator  and  a  man  who  can  safely  be  entrusted  with  the  interests  of  the 
people  who  have  repeatedly  honored  him  with  public  office. 


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JOHN  M.   COX. 


■  OHN  M.  COX  represents  Oregon  county  in  the  present  Lower  House 
of  Missouri's  Legislative  Mill.    He  is  thirty-nine  years  old  and  was  born 
in  Dent  county.    He  was  educated  in  the  common  public  schools,  and  follows 
the  honorable  occupation  of  a  farmer,  at  which  he  has  been  successful. 

He  was  married  to  Lizzie  B.  Lemmons,  of  Texas  county,  and  is  the 
father  of  seven  children. 

Being  a  Bryan  Democrat  of  the  truest  blue,  and  having  a  determination 
that  the  Republicans  shall  never  gain  an  ascendency  in  this  State  again, 
the  gods  answered  his  zeal  and  wish  by  presenting  him  and  his  good 
wife  with  two  healthy  little  twin  boys,  who  are  four  years  old,  and  whom 
he  will  train  up  in  the  good  old  faith  of  democracy. 

Mr.  Cox  has  never  held  any  public  office  before  his  present  one,  but  he 
is  still  in  his  prime  and  has  plenty  of  political  fields  to  enter  if  he  so  desires.  He  is  a  firm  friend  of  the  public  schools 
and  is  always  interested  in  any  legislation  which  tends  to  uplift  them,  and  put  them  on  a  better  footing. 

Mr.  Cox  is  very  popular  among  the  members  from  the  fact  of  his  jovial,  good  natured  disposition.  No  one  is 
fonder  of  a  good  joke  or  witticism  than  he,  and  the  people  of  Oregon  county  have  made  no  mistake  by  sending  him 
to  the  Legislature. 


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E.  W.  MARTIN. 


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W.  MARTIN,  of  Auxvasse,  who  so  ably  represents  Callaway  county 
in  the  Thirty-nirith  General  Assembly,  was  born,  reared  and  edu- 
cated in  the  "Kingdom  of  Callaway,"  and  is  fifty-four  years  of  age.  He 
married  Miss  Sallie  Craig,  also  of  Callaway,  and  is  the  father  of  one  child,  a 
daughter.  He  is  a  typical  Missouri  farmer,  whose  horny  hands  show  him  to 
be  a  "tiller  of  the  soil,"  one  of  "the  hewers  of  wood  and  drawers  of  water," 
and  while  he  has  been  a  life-long  Democrat  and  has  always  been  one  of  the 
party  leaders,  he  never  sought  or  held  office  until  called  upon  by  his  neigh- 
bors to  represent  them  in  the  Legislature.  It  was  not  for  his  aggressive 
disposition  or  his  brilliant  oratory  that  be  was  chosen  from  among  his  fellows 
for  this  important  office,  but  because  of  his  rigid  integrity  and  sterling  worth 
as  a  man  and  a  citizen — his  constituents  knowing  that  their  interests  would 
be  carefully  guarded  by  him.  His  ability  and  worth  were  at  once  recognized 
by  the  Speaker,  who,  besides  making  him  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Permanent  Seat  of  Government,  appointed  him  to  positions  on  five  other 
important  Committees,  viz:  Federal  Relations,  State  Libraries,  Eleemosy- 
nary Institutions,  Constitutional  Amendments  and  Official  Salaries  and  P^ees.  He  is  active  and  alert,  carefully  watch- 
ing every  measure  affecting  the  interests  of  the  people,  and  his  vote  is  always  recorded  on  the  side  of  the  masses.  To 
use  his  own  language  he  is  "a  State's  rights  Democrat,"  who  has  never  yielded  or  surrendered  that  principle,  and  is 
ready  at  all  times  to  defend  the  same.  As  a  man  he  is  a  genial,  companionable  gentleman  who  has  made  a  stanch 
friend  of  all  whom  he  has  come  in  contact  with.  Callaway,  one  of  the  banner  Democratic  counties  in  the  grand  old 
Commonwealth  of  Missouri,  is  justly  proud  of  her  Representative  who  so  fearlessly  and  ably  represents  her  in  the 
Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  "Would  that  there  were  more  Representatives  of  his  sterling  worth  and  unswerving 
fidelity. 


JAMES  H.    WHITECOTTON. 


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^HIS  cut  is  the  statesmanlike  countenance  of  James  H.  Whitecottou 
the  Representative  of  Monroe  county  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General 
Assembly.  Mr.  Whitecotton  is  forty-two  years  old  and  was  born  and  raised 
in  Ralls  county  in  this  State.  He  first  attended  the  common  public  schools 
and,  after  serving  his  apprenticeship  in  them,  he  attended  the  Renssalear 
Academy  and  the  Kirksville  Normal.  Not  content  with  this,  he  went  to 
the  State  University,  and  pursued  his  education  to  a  higher  and  more  com- 
plete degree.  Mr.  Whitecotton  is  a  lawyer  by  profession,  and  Enjoys  an 
extensive  and  lucrative  practice  at  Paris,  iu  his  home  county.  As  a  pleader 
of  criminal  law  there  are  few  men  of  his  age  in  the  State  who  surpass  him. 
He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Zora  A.  Wilson,  of  Gentry  county,  and  is 
the  father  of  four  bright  children.  Mr.  Whitecotton's  struggle  in  life  is  one 
that  commands  the  highest  admiration.  After  having  provided  himself  with 
a  fair  education  he  begun  to  teach  school,  and  out  of  these  earnings  saved 
en9Ugh  to  continue  his  studies  and  complete  his  law  course  in  the  State 
University.  His  diploma  was  presented  to  him  in  i8S6,  in  the  presence  of  his  wife  and  two  children,  by  Dr.  Laws. 
He  was  the  Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Monroe  county  from  1889  to  '93,  and  proved  a  very  efficient  officer.  He  is  a  great- 
great-grandson  of  John  Paulding,  one  of  the  three  men  who  captured  the  famous  Major  Andre  of  revolutionary  times; 
he  has  always  been  a  pronounced  and  uncompromising  Democrat,  and  no  man  stands  higher  in  the  Thirty- ninth  Gen- 
eral Assembly  than  this  young  statesman  from  Monroe,  He  has  the  reputation  of  being  the  most  eloquent  orator  in 
the  House,  and  to  no  man  belongs  this  distinguished  recognition  more  justly.  He  is  the  father  of  a  number  of  impor- 
tant bills  and  has  taken  an  active  part  in  all  legislation  from  the  very  beginning.  Charming  in  personality,  able  and 
a  brilliant  orator,  no  man  who  has  played  a  part  in  the  drama  at  Missouri's  capital  this  winter  has  a  brighter  future 
than  this  man  who  hails  from  the  old  banner  Democratic  county  of  Monroe.  He  was  Chairman  of  the  Stockyards 
Investigating  Committee  and  Chairman  of  the  Steering  Committee  of  the  Democratic  caucus.  He  was  a  member  of 
somi  of  the  most  important  committees  of  the  House;  was  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Rules,  also  on  Joint  Rules. 


WILLIAM  M.  DEN  SLOW. 


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'HE  subject  of  this  sketch,  William  M.  Denslow,  is  the  Republican  Rep- 
resentative from  Grundy  county.  Mr.  Denslow  is  located  at  Spickard 
in  the  county  which  he  represents,  and  is  editor  of  the  Grundy  County 
Gazette.  He  is  a  stanch  Republican  in  politics  and  believes  firmly  in  the 
principles  enunciated  in  the  platform  of  that  party.  He  was  born  in  Grundy 
county  thirty-eight  years  ago,  and  is  a  man  of  much  more  than  ordinary 
ability.  Mr.  Denslow  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  his  county,  and 
afterward  attended  the  high  school  at  Trenton.  For  more  than  ten  years  he 
taught  in  the  public  schools  of  bis  native  county.  He  was  married  in  1880 
to  Miss  Callie  Schooler,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  a  bright  little  boy,  Mas- 
ter Ray,  eleven  years  old,  who  was  a  page  in  the  House  at  the  extra  session 
of  the  Thirty-eighth  General  Assembly. 

Mr.  Denslow  has  held  the  office  of  Town  ship  Treasurer  for  ten  years,  and 
has  been  prominently  connected  in  educational  work,  and  for  a  number  of  years  has  been  Secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Education  of  Spickard,  Missouri.  He  has  been  prominent  in  politics  in  Grundy  county  and  the  Second  Congres- 
sional District  for  several  years,  and  is  at  present  Secretary  of  the  Republican  Congressional  Committee  of  his  district. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Thirty-eighth  General  Assembly  and  was  re-elected  to  the  Thirty-ninth  As.sembly  without 
opposition  in  his  party  or  at  the  general  election.  In  the  present  Assembly  he  is  an  active  member  of  the  Committees 
on  Education,  Internal  Improvements  and  Printing,  and  he  is  in  every  way  an  honor  to  the  minority  party  in  the 
House  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


DAVID  F.  FITZGERALD. 


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*HIS  is  the  genial  likeness  of  one  of  the  three  giants  in  the  Thirty-ninth 
General  Assembly.  He  resides  at  Ford  City  and  is  the  Representative 
from  Gentry  county.  Mr.  Fitzgerald  was  born  forty-nine  years  ago  in  Mc- 
Minn  county,  Tennessee,  and  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  the  land  and  birth- 
place of  great  statesmen.  When  but  a  few  years  old  he  came  to  Missouri,  and 
has  remained  with  its  good  people  ever  since.  He  married  Miss  Mary  F.  Pat- 
ton,  of  Gentry  county,  twenty-one  years  ago,  and  is  the  father  of  eight  chil- 
dren, five  boj's  and  three  girls,  seven  of  whom  are  living.  In  all  the 
State  there  isn't  a  more  ardent  Democrat  than  Mr.  Fitzgerald  ;  he  glories 
in  the  traditions  and  principles  of  his  party  and  is  ever  ready  to  defend  his 
political  faith. 

The  present  office  is  the  first  position  of  political  importance  that  he  has  ever  held,  but  there  is  not  one 
man  in  the  present  Assembly  who  is  more  capable  and  qualified  to  sit  in  the  seat  of  a  legislator  than  the  tower- 
ing statesman  from  Gentry  county.  He  is  a  man  who  reads  a  great  deal,  was  educated  in  Grand  River  College  and  is 
in  every  particular  a  well  informed  man.  He  is  president  of  the  Farmers'  Insurance  Company  of  his  county,  is  an  Elder 
in  the  Round  Grove  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church,  and  was  a  member  of  the  recent  Stock-yards  Committee 
which  went  to  Kansas  City.  He  is  fond  of  wit  and  raises  many  a  wave  of  applause  in  the  House  by  his 
sarcastic  remarks.  Everybody  is  his  friend,  for  to  know  him  is  to  admire  him.  Gentry  county  has  honored  herself 
by  sending  to  the  Thirty-ninth  Assembly  this  tall  sycamore,  the  thoroughbred  Democrat  and  genial  Fitzgerald. 


JAMES   P.  SHEWMAKER. 


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*HE  accompanying  cut  is  a  fair  resemblance  to  James  P.  Shewmaker, 
the  rock-ribbed  Bryan  Democrat  from  Buchanan  county.  Mr.  Shew- 
maker was  born  fifty-four  years  ago  in  the  county  which  he  now  represents 
in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly,  and  received  his  education  in  its  pub- 
lic schools.  He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Minerva  Rockhold,  also  a 
resident  of  the  above  county;  he  is  the  father  of  four  children.  This  is  the 
first  political  oflSce  which  Mr.  Shewmaker  has  ever  held;  he  has,  however, 
often  represented  his  county  in  State  and  congressional  conventions.  In 
religion  he  is  a  Missionary  Baptist.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Miscellaneous  and  Unfinished  Business,  a  member  of  the  Committee  on 
Municipal  Corporations,  and  also  the  Committee  on  Agriculture.  Mr. 
Shewmaker  has  made  a  friend  of  every  one  who  has  enjoyed  the  good  fortune  to  become  acquainted  with  him. 
Mr.  Shewmaker  does  not  believe  in  consuming  valuable  time  in  wild,  oratorical  displays,  but  prefers  to  give  a 
just  attention  to  the  bills  before  him,  without  delay  or  filibustering  methods.  He  has  always  been  an  ardent  silver 
man,  and  an  enthusiastic  supporter  of  the  great  dominant  principles  of  his  part}-.  Buchanan  county  has  not  erred  in 
sending  him  to  the  Legislature. 


COL.  JOSEPH  A.    FINER. 


/^■^OL.  JOSEPH  A.  FINER,  of  St.  Joseph,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is 
— ^  one  of  the  safest  and  most  trusted  men  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General 
Assembly.  He  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Kentucky,  and  came  to  this 
State  in  1862,  and  has  left  his  destiny  in  the  hands  of  Missouri's  hospitable 
people  ever  since.  Col.  Finer  has  been  a  very  active  man  in  business  and 
in  public  affairs,  but  has  now  permanently  retired  from  business.  He  was  a 
boy  in  the  good  old  days  of  long  ago  when  conditions  instilled  into  youth 
the  quality  of  iron  and  sinew;  he  received  his  education  in  a  little  log  cabin 
in  Kentucky,  and  there  learned  the  duty  of  manhood  and  received  that 
industry  which  makes  success  of  life.  He  is  a  widower  and  seems  to  be  content  with  his  lot,  notwithstanding  the 
doubts  of  womaukind  in  this  respect.  Col.  Finer  was  Sheriff  of  Campbell  county,  Kentucky,  for  two  terms,  and  has 
also  been  Mayor  of  St.  Joseph  for  four  years.  In  politics  there  is  no  more  sterling  or  uncompromising  Democrat  in 
the  State;  he  is  an  enthusiastic  advocate  of  free  silver,  and  took  a  great  interest  in  the  recent  presidential  campaign. 
He  is  an  amiable  gentleman,  and  every  member  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  who  knows  him,  treats  him 
with  a  high  regard.     Considering  his  extensive  experience  he  also  makes  an  invaluable  legislator. 


WINFIELD  S.  POPE. 


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'INFIELD  S.  POPE  was  born  in  North  Carolina,  July  20,  1847,  and 
was  educated  in  Davidson  Academy  and  North  Carolina  Military 
Academy  of  his  native  state.  In  1866  he  left  North  Carolina  and  came  west 
to  cast  his  lot  and  fortune  with  the  people  of  the  great  commonwealth  of 
Missouri;  was  married  to  Miss  Lucy  Miller  of  Jefferson  City,  and  has  three 
charming  daughters,  who  move  in  the  most  select  and  exclusive  social  circles 
at  the  State  Capital.  As  the  Representative  of  Cole  county,  Mr.  Pope  plays 
an  unusually  prominent  and  influential  role  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General 
Assembly,  and  to  no  man  on  the  floor  of  the  House  does  the  distinguished 
toga  of  leadership  fall  more  justly.  In  fact  few  men  of  Mr.  Pope's  ability 
and  power  can  afford  to  neglect  their  legal  duties  for  a  seat  in  the  Legis- 
lature, which  is  not  Tery  lucrative,  and  after  all  limited  in  its  scope  for 
political  aggrandizement.  Mr.  Pope  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1867  at 
Marshfield,  Mo.,  by  the  late  Robert  W.  P'yan,  and  later  practiced  law  at 
Hartville,  Mo.,  until  1S75,  when  he  removed  to  Jefferson  City,  where  he  has  practiced  ever  since.  Mr.  Pope  was  a 
member  of  the  General  Assembly  in  1873-1874  and  the  political  wrangles  and  confusion  of  the  House  are  therefore  not 
entirely  unknown  to  him.  He  is  one  of  the  ablest  criminal  lawyers  in  the  State  and  is,  therefore,  perfectly  at  ease  in 
the  frequent  debates  which  occur  on  the  floor  of  the  House.  He  has  the  reputation  of  having  the  tenacity  of  a  bull 
dog  in  a  legal  or  political  fight,  and  it  is  for  this  reason  that  members  court  his  favor  upon  their  pet  measures  before 
their  fate  comes  before  the  House.  But  Mr.  Pope  is  nevertheless  a  kind  and  courteous  gentleman,  a  determined 
political  fighter  and  leader,  and  one  of  the  stanchest  Democrats  in  the  great  State  of  Missouri. 


GEORGE   V.  PYEATT. 


GEORGE  Y.  PYEATT  is  the  member  in  the  Thirty- ninth  General 
Assembly  from  St.  Clair  county.  Mr.  Pyeatt  was  born  in  Richland 
county,  Ohio,  sixty-two  years  ago,  but  afterward  removed  to  Illinois,  where 
he  spent  part  of  his  life,  and  then  came  to  the  "  state  of  coal  and  iron  "  and 
good  people  to  work  out  his  remaining  fortunes.  He  is  a  Democrat  of  the 
sturdiest  type  and  is  a  farmer  by  occupation.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Illinois  and  has  made  the  most  of  his  opportunities.  As  many 
other  boys  who  have  to  make  their  own  way  in  the  world,  he  was  unable  to 
avail  himself  of  the  advantages  of  a  college  training,  and  hence  had  to  be 
'  content  with  the  rudiments  of  the  common  public  school.  Mr.  Pyeatt  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Teresa  Wells  and  is  the  parent  of  four  children. 
He  is  a  well  preserved  man,  considering  the  hard  work  and  worry  which 
has  devolved  upon  him  in  attaining  the  position  of  a  successful  farmer. 

Mr,  Pyeatt  takes  but  little  interest  in  the  discussions  of  the  House,  but  is  content  to  cast  his  ballot  upon  the 
legislation  which  calls  for  verdict  from  him.  He  is  for  strict  economy  in  public  expenditures  and  believes  that  to 
waste  a  dollar  of  the  public  money  is  a  public  crime.  He  is  one  of  the  old  school  Democrats  and  an  honor  to  the 
party. 


CHARLES  WILLIAMS. 


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CHARLES  WILLIAMS  is  one  of  the  Gibraltar  Democrats  in  the  present 
Legislature.  He  resides  at  House  Springs;  was  born  September  12,  1847, 

near  Newark,  Ohio,  and  there  spent  his  boyhood  days  and  merged  into  man- 
hood; was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  State  and  put  the  finish- 
ing touch  to  his  education  in  Denison  University,  Ohio.  By  profession  he  is 
a  surgeon  and  physician  and  has  a  good  practice  in  Jefferson  county,  which 
he  represents  in  the  present  Assembly.  He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Sue  E.  Stephens,  of  De  Soto,  and  has  three  children.  He  has  always  been  a 
firm  and  reliable  Democrat ;  has  often  been  importuned  to  run  for  office  in 
Jefferson  county,  but  has  steadily  refused  all  political  honors  until  the  late 
campaign,  when  he  was  prevailed  upon  to  run  for  the  Legislature.     He  has 

of  friends  among  his  fellow  legislators,  and  is  a  man  who  pays  strict  attention  to  duty  and  is  well  qualified 

the  responsible  duties  of  his  present  office. 


GEORGE   B.    COWLEY. 


GEORGE  B.    COWLEY  is  one  of  the  substantial  Republican  members 
of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly,  and  assists  the  minority  in 
impressing  the  Democrats  with  the  fact  that  there  are  yet  a  few  Republicans 
left  in  Old  Missouri.     He  is  thirty-six  years  old,  and  is  a  native  of  Wiscon- 
sin; he  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  State  and  Missouri, 
and  afterward  attended  the   Missouri  Medical  College  at  St.  Louis,   from 
which   institution   he    graduated    with    honors.     He    represents    Caldwell 
county;   practices  his  profession  and  edits  a  newspaper  in  Cowgill,  where  he 
resides.     He  served  three  terms  as  Coroner  of  Caldwell  county;  he  has  also 
been  a  member  of  his  County    Central   Committee  for  fourteen  years,  and 
was,    at  one   time,    a    member    of   the   Congressional    Committee  of  his 
district*.     Mr.  Cowley  was,  in   1886,  united   in  marriage  to   Miss   Mary   E. 
McCray,  of  Caldwell  county,  and  has  six  children,  two  boys  and  four  girls.     For  seven  years  he  has  been  proprietor 
of  the  Cowgill  Chief,  an  influential  Republican  newspaper;  he  has  also  gained  a  reputation  as  a  writer  of  religious 
and  other  poems,  being  a  lineal  descendant  of  Abraham  Cowley,  England's  great  poetic  writer.     His  wife  also  traces 
her  lineage  back  to  Charles  Carroll  of  Carrollton ,  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.     Dr.  Cowley 
is  a  refined  gentleman,  a  safe  legislator,  and  as  a  Representative  is  a  credit  to  the  people  who  sent  him.     Mr.  Cowley 
served  on  the  Committees  on  Ways  and  Means,  and  on  Banks  and  Banking,  where  he  did  excellent  work. 


HUGH  ARMSTRONG. 


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UGH  ARMSTRONG  is  another  man  who  does  battle  in  the  Thirty- 
ninth  General  Assembly  for  the  Republican  minority.  He  resides 
at  Kirkwood,  St.  Louis  county,  but  was  born  in  Rogersville,  Tenn.,  April 
13,  1840.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  and  high  schools  in  the  vicinity 
of  Kirkwood,  and  afterward  attended  the  junior  year  in  Marietta  College, 
Marietta,  Ohio.  His  business  is  that  of  an  insurance  agent,  which  he  fol- 
lows at  his  home  in  Kirkwood.  He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Annie  O. 
Olcott,  of  Rook  Hill,  St.  Louis  county,  in  the  year  1871,  and  is  the  father  of 
one  daughter.  In  politics  Mr.  Armstrong  has  always  been  a  firm  Repub- 
lican. His  election  to  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  was  entirely  un- 
sought for  on  his  part,  but  being  urged  to  make  the  race,  he  finally  con- 
sented and  led  his  ticket,  his  majority  being  1109  over  the  combined  oppo- 
sition. For  twelve  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Republican  Central  Committee  of  St.  Louis  county,  and  is  at 
present,  and  has  been  for  years,  Secretary  of  that  body.  Mr.  Armstrong  entered  the  Union  army  August  12,  1861, 
served  four  months,  was  honorably  discharged,  after  which  he  went  to  California;  he  returned  in  1862  as  a  member 
of  the  "California  One  Hundred" — a  private.  The  company  was  assigned  to  Massachusetts,  quoted  as  Co.  A,  Second 
Massachusetts  Cavalry.  He  was  soon  promoted  to  First  Sergeant,  then  Second  Lieutenant,  First  Lieutenant,  and 
finally  Captain.  Mr.  Armstrong  is  a  man  who  has  had  a  great  deal  of  experience  in  all  practical  lines.  Though  an 
ardent  Republican  he  is  liberal  minded  upon  all  questions.  He  is  a  man  who  stands  as  an  honor  to  the  minority, 
and  a  capable  representative  of  his  people. 


WILLIAM  H,  COCK. 


ONE  of  the  veteran  Democrats  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  is 
William  H.  Cock,  who  is  the  Representative  of  Henry  county,  and 
resides  at  Clinton,  Mo.  Mr.  Cock  is  sixty-seven  years  old  ;  was  born  in 
Rutherford  county,  Tennessee  ;  went  with  his  parents  to  Kentucky  in  1830  ; 
he  passed  his  infancy  in  Kentucky,  coming  to  this  State  in  1839.  He 
was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  Missouri  and  Kentucky,  and  is  a 
man  who  has  led  an  active,  busy  life.  He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Eliza  L.  Hancock,  of  Lincoln  county.  Mo.,  and  is  the  father  of  three  chil- 

rdren — one  boy  and  two  girls.     In  1848  he  settled  in  Hickory  county,  and 
embarked  in  the  mercantile  business  ;  went  from  there  to  Osceola  in  1851, 
and  later,  in  1856,  removed  to  Clinton,  in  the  county  which  he  now  repre- 
^  sents,  and  has  resided  there  ever  since,  following  the  merchandise  business 

in  connection  with  farming.  Mr.  Cock  is  a  man  with  wide  legislative  experience,  and  is  very  popular  in  the  county 
in  which  he  lives.  He  comes  to  the  Thirty-ninth  Assembly  with  the  extensive  acquaintance  with  legislative  affairs 
which  he  gathered  from  the  Thirtieth  and  Thirty-fourth  General  Assemblies.  He  was  also  elected  Collector  of 
his  county  in  1872. 

Mr.  Cock  is  a  man  of  sound  judgment,  a  thorough  Democrat,  and  a  man  well  fitted  and  qualified  to  represent 
Henry  county  in  the  Missouri  Legislature. 


JAMES  H.  ROSS. 


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AMES  H.  ROSS  is  the  sterling  Democrat  who  represents  the  people  of 
Pulaski  county  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  He  resides  at 
Big  Piney  and  is  a  farmer  by  occupation,  in  which  line  he  has  been  quite 
successful.  He  was  born  July  19,  1840,  in  Gibson  county,  Tenn.,  and  in  the 
year  1868  left  the  State  of  his  birth  and  came  to  Missouri.  He  grew  to  man- 
hood in  Tennessee  and  was  educated  in  its  common  schools.  He  was 
married  to  Miss  Isabella  McDonald,  of  Waynesville,  Mo.,  who  died  March 
5,  1897,  and  is  the  father  of  ten  children,  eight  girls  and  two  boys,  the  eldest 
daughter  being  married  and  a  resident  of  Kansas.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Union 
army  and  was  mustered  out  of  service  as  First  Lieutenant.  He  served  in  the 
capacity  of  Deputy  Sheriff  in  Tennessee  in  1866-7  ;  again  served  as  Deputy  Sheriff  and  Collector  in  Pulaski  county 
in  the  years  1878,  1879  and  1880.  He  was  elected  to  the  Thirty-eighth  General  Assembly  and  re-elected  to  the  present 
one  by  a  largely  increased  vote.  He  is  a  man  who  thoroughly  possesses  the  confidence  of  his  people  and  has  always 
been  an  outspoken  Democrat,  whose  party  faith  and  fealty  is  above  question  or  reproach.  Being  a  farmer,  he  is 
closely  allied  to  their  interests,  and  with  his  advanced  experience  in  legislative  matters  and  parliamentary  tactics  is 
an  absolutely  invaluable  member  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


CHARLES  ANDREW  SMITH. 


CHARLES  ANDREW  SMITH,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  one  of  the 
most  brilliant  young  men  who  grace  the  Republican  minority  in  the 
Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  He  is  only  thirty-one  years  old  and  was 
born  in  Elsat,  111.,  in  which  State  he  passed  the  majority  of  his  younger 
days.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  and  afterward  attended  the 
St.  Louis  Law  School,  from  which  institution  he  graduated  in  a  creditable 
manner  ;  his  law  course  was  completed  in  June  of  1892,  and  he  was  admitted 
to  practice.  He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mamie  B,  Spangle,  of 
Jersey  county,  Illinois,  and  is  the  father  of  a  bright  little  girl.  Mr.  Smith 
practices  law  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis  and  has  a  patronage  that  nets  him  an 
elegant  income.  In  politics  he  has  always  been  an  ardent  Republican,  and 
is  at  all  times  ready  to  stand  up  for  the  party  which  sent  him  as  a  mem- 
ber to  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  Though  Mr.  Smith  has  always  taken  a  very  lively  interest  in  politics  yet 
this  is  the  first  political  office  he  has  ever  held.  He  believes  that  silence  is  sometimes  preferable  to  oratory,  and  hence 
never  takes  the  floor  unless  he  is  distinctly  interested  and  concerned.  Personally  he  is  very  amiable,  a  gentleman  in 
his  transactions,  and  in  fact  one  of  the  most  popular  young  men  in  the  Assembly. 


DR.    W.  J.  RUTLEDGE. 


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R.  W.  J.  RUTLEDGE,  of  Lawrence  county,  is  a  Missourian  and  proud 
of  his  native  State;  is  a  descendant  of  the  old  Rutledge  family  of 
South  Carolina;  his  mother  was  a  Howard,  niece  of  Tillman  A.  Howard,  of 
Indiana,  who  was  sent  as  a  minister  to  Texas  at  an  early  day.  The  subject 
of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Newton  county  forty-four  years  ago;  educated  at 
Newtonia  Academy,  Pierce  City  High  School  and  Missouri  Medical  College. 
After  completing  his  medical  course  began  the  practice  of  medicine  and  has 
ever  since  been  successful  in  his  chosen  profession.  He  now  lives  upon  a 
farm  in  Friestatt,  surrounded  by  the  comforts  of  a  quiet  life  and  happy 
family.  In  1878  he  married  Miss  Manda  Brite,  of  Pierce  City,  and  four  girls 
and  three  boys  have  blessed  the  ixnion.  For  three  years  and  a  half  prior  to 
last  October  Dr.  Rutledge  was  Pension  Examining  Surgeon  at  Pierce  City, 
resigning  that  position  to  devote  his  time  and  energies  to  the  political  con- 
test being  waged  in  Lawrence  county  last  fall ;  is  a  Democrat  of  the  Jeflfersonian  stripe  and  fearless  in  his  political 
convictions.  The  Populists  of  Lawrence  county  supported  Dr.  Rutledge  at  the  polls,  and  he  was  elected  by  a  major- 
ity of  418  votes  in  a  county  that  had  formerly  been  safely  Republican;  was  Chairman  of  the  Text  Book  Committee, 
one  of  the  most  important  committees  of  the  House,  and  a  member  of  the  Committee  on  Appropriations.  He  made 
a  good  record  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  discussions  on  the  floor  of  the 
House,  and  was  ever  ready  to  espouse  any  measure  that  tended  to  benefit  the  common  people. 


GEORGE  B.  ELLIS. 


AMONG  the  members  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  there  are 
few  more  conscientious  and  painstaking  legislators  than  George  B. 
Ellis,  the  Representative  from  Bates  county.  Mr.  Ellis  is  forty  years  old, 
and  was  born  and  reared  on  a  farm  in  Greene  county,  Indiana,  and  there 
were  instilled  into  his  boyish  life,  far  from  the  dangerous  temptations  of  the 
city,  the  qualities  and  sentiments  which  make  men  and  citizens.  He  was 
educated  in  Ascension  Normal  and  the  Evansville  Business  College  in  his 
native  State,  and  speaking  from  this  standpoint,  he  has  received  a  training 
which  eminently  fits  him  for  his  present  position  and  almost  any  other  that 
is  apt  to  be  thrown  in  his  way.  Although  qualified  for  a  higher  calling  from 
an  educational  point  of  view,  he  is  content  to  be  a  farmer  with  a  farmer's 
opportunities  and  life.  He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Anna  William- 
sen,  of  Indiana,  and  is  the  father  of  five  children,  one  daughter  and  four 
sons.  In  his  own  words,  he  is  a  Jacksonian  Democrat  of  the  purest  and  most  pronounced  type.  He  has  held  various 
offices  in  the  county  which  he  now  represents,  and  is  a  man  who  enjoys  the  confidence  of  his  home  people.  He 
introduced  a  General  Fellow  Servant  Bill,  a  bill  reducing  salaries  and  a  compulsory  education  measure.  He  looks 
into  all  legislation  from  a  careful  and  conscientious  standpoint,  and  is  one  of  the  Democrats  in  the  Thirty-ninth 
General  Assembly  who  is  thoroughly  competent  to  discharge  the  duties  with  which  his  constituents  have  entrusted 
him. 


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OSCAR  F.  SESSINGHAUS. 


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HE  subject  of  this  sketch  is  Oscar  F.  Sessinghaus,   of  the  City  of  St. 

Louis.     Mr.    Sessinghaus  is  one  of   the   youngest   members   of  the 

House,  being  only  twenty-six  years  old.     He  was  born  and  reared  in  the  city 

in  which  he  now  resides.     He  was  educated  in  the  University  of  Michigan,  is 

a  lawyer  by  profession  and  has  a  bright  future  in  the  legal  line  in  St.  Louis. 

In  politics  Mr.  Sessinghaus  is  an  ardent  Republican,    and,  considering  his 

age,  is  quite  an  able  advocate  and  defender  of  that  party  whose  fundamental 

principles  were  founded  by  the  great  Hamilton.     He  has  learned  one  very 

important  lesson  to  a  young  legislator,  and  that  is  that  it  does  not  pay  to  get 

out  on  the  floor  upon  every  proposition  which  comes  up  before  the  House — 

there  is  nothing  like  knowing  when  to  talk  and  when  to  remain  silent.     As 

yet  Mr.  Sessinghaus  is  in  a  state  of  single  blessedness,  but  we  assume  no  responsibility  for  his  future.     He  is  in  every 

way  one  of  the  brightest  and  brainiest  young  men  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


T.    W.    WADE. 


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W.  WADE,  who  is  the  harden  of  this  short  biographical  sketch,  is 
one  of  the  rock-ribbed  Democrats  of  the  Thirty  ninth  General 
Assembly.  Mr.  Wade  is  a  native  of  Georgia;  was  born  in  that  State  in  1847, 
and  came  to  ''  Old  Missouri  "  with  his  parents  in  1852,  and  ever  since  that 
time  has  been  content  to  trust  his  interests  with  the  good  old  people  of  our 
State.  He  is  the  head  of  a  family  consisting  of  nine  industrious  children, 
six  of  whom  are  married;  the  other  three,  with  their  parents,  reside  in  their 
picturesque  home  in  the  rural  parts  of  Greene  county. 

Mr.  Wade,  as  many  other  industrious  young  Americans,  has  won  his 
way  to  a  position  of  eminence  and  honor  by  his  own  determined  will  and 
energy;  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  this  State,  he  has  been  a  very 
close  student  and  observer,  until  today  there  are  few  men  among  the  members  of  the  present  Assembly  who  surpass 
him  in  practical  knowledge.  He  won  a  signal  victory  in  the  last  election,  and  was  sent  to  the  Legislature  from  a 
county  which  had  always  been  considered  hopelessly  Republican  ;  to  his  own  personal  cleanliness  of  character  and 
manhood  this  victory  is  practically  due.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Republic  Canning  Company  of  Republic,  Greene  county,  and  has  made  that  industry  a  prounounced  success;  he  owns 
two  elegant  farms,  besides  a  fruit  farm  near  Springfield,  in  Greene  county.  He  is  a  strong  free  silver  Democrat,  is 
closely  allied  with  the  interests  of  the  industrial  classes,  and  is  in  every  way  one  of  the  most  substantial  and  valuable 
members  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


MATTHEW  COFFEY. 


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ATTHEW  COFFEY  is  one  of  the  substantial  Democratic  members  of 
the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  He  is  fifty-one  years  old  and 
was  born  in  Kentucky,  the  land  of  blue  grass  and  patriotic  statesmen.  He 
resides  at  Downing  at  the  present  time  and  is  the  Representative  of  Schuyler 
county.  He  came  to  this  State  when  he  was  only  four  years  old  and  has 
resided  here  ever  since;  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Memphis,  Mo. 
By  occupation  Mr.  Coffey  is  a  farmer  and  stock  raiser,  and  as  a  legislator 
in  the  present  Assembly  he  is  ever  watchful  of  the  interests  of  the  men  to 
whose  class  his  following  attaches  him. 

He  was  united  to  Miss  M.  E.  Downing  of  Scotland  county.  Mo.,  in  1869, 
and  is  the  father  of  eight  children.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat  of  the  most 
undaunted  variety  and  has  worked  long  and  hard  to  convert  his  county  from 
the  plague  of  Republicanism,  in  which  he  was  successful  in  the  recent  elec- 
tion. Two  years  ago  the  Republican  candidate  received  a  majority  of  317  votes,  and  this  time  he  himself  carried 
the  county  by  330,  thus  attesting  his  own  popularity  as  a  Democratic  race  horse  in  Schuyler  county.  He  tries  to  save 
money  for  his  State  by  refraining  from  taking  a  part  in  the  long,  tedious  debates,  but  contents  himself  by  casting 
an  intelligent  vote  upon  the  propositions  which  come  before  him.     He  is  the  right  man  in  the  right  place. 


JOHN  A.  PORTER. 


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OHN  A.  PORTER  is  another  young  Republican  statesman  from  the 
City  of  St.  Louis,  who  is  helping  to  make  the  beastly  Democratic 
majority  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  understand  that  there  exists 
also  a  vigorous  Republican  minority.  Twenty-eight  years  ago,  John  A.  Porter 
was  born  amid  the  beautiful  hills  of  Scotland,  the  land  of  the  immortal  Bob- 
bie Burns  and  of  bonnie  lads  and  maids.  There  he  resided  until  fifteen 
years  of  age,  and  then  left  her  myths  and  mistletoe  to  mingle  his  fortunes  in 
that  greatest  of  all  nations,  America.  He  was  educated  in  the  Grammar 
schools  of  his  native  land,  and  after  coming  to  this  country  took  up  the  study 
of  law  and  is  now  practicing  his  profession  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis.  He 
came  to  Missouri  from  Georgia,  where  he  resided  a  number  of  years.  Mr. 
Porter's  father  had  been  in  this  country  before  him,  and  had  served  as  a  sol- 
dier in  the  Union  Army,  afterward  returning  to  Scotland,  when  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  was  born.  Mr.  Porter  does  not  play  any  very  aggressive  part  in  the  oratorical  displays  which  are  so 
frequent  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly,  but,  being  an  attorney  by  profession,  is  able  to  form  for  himself  a 
sound  opinion  of  the  constitutionality  and  advisability  of  all  the  bills  which  come  up  for  consideration.  He  is  a 
capable  Representative  and  an  honor  to  the  minority. 


COL.  JAMES  M'LEAN  PIPER. 


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OL:  JAMES  M'LEAN  PIPER,  who  represents  the  Third  District  of  St. 
Louis  City,  was  born  in  Ligonier  Valley,  Westmoreland  county,  Pa., 
May  I,  1840.  He  was  of  Saxon  descent.  His  ancestor  was  Maquas  Pyper, 
of  Holstein.  In  the  wars  which  prevailed  in  Germany  the  Pipers  emigrated 
from  Nuremburg  to  the  north  of  Ireland,  thence  to  Dockmouth,  in  Devon- 
shire. There  Nathaniel  Piper  was  born  in  1658,  and,  coming  to  America 
after  he  had  grown  to  manhood,  he  settled  at  Ipswich,  Mass.  Three  of  his 
family  afterward  made  their  homes  in  Lancaster  county,  Pa.  They  gained 
distinction  both  for  their  personal  character  and  bravery  in  the  Indian  wars. 
William  Piper  served  under  Gen.  Forbes  at  Fort  Duquesue  in  175S,  and  also 
in  the  Revolutionary  war.  His  son,  Peter  Piper,  crossed  the  Alleghenies  at 
the  age  of  eighteen  to  make  his  home  in  the  Ligonier  Valley,  where  he  died 
in  1858  at  the  age  of  ninety-seven.  He  was  an  Indian  scout  and  spy,  a  man 
of  great  courage  and  daring,  familiar  with  woodcraft  as  well  as  warcraft. 
He  was  a  Jacksonian  Democrat  in  politics,  and  a  Cumberland  Presbyterian 
in  religion.  The  father  of  twelve  children,  his  sons  and  grandsons  inherited 
his  belief,  but  his  son  William,  the  father  of  the  Colonel,  became  a  stanch 
_  Republican  after  the  repeal  of  the  Missouri  Compromise.     James  was  reared 

at  the  family  homestead  and  received  his  education  in  the  common  schools, 
supplemented  by  several  terms  in  Ligonier  and  Sewickley  Academies.  He  learned  his  father's  trade  of  millwright, 
following  it  durmg  the  summer  and  going  to  school  in  winter.  It  was  his  purpose,  however,  to  become  a  lawyer,  and 
for  this  purpose  he  attended  the  Michigan  Law  School.  He  served  with  honor  in  the  late  war,  going  out  with  the 
First  Battalion  of  Pennsylvania  Cavalry.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he  came  to  St.  Louis  in  1865  to  follow  the  live 
stock  business.  From  1870  to  1875  he  was  connected  with  the  Piper  Manufacturing  Company  at  Springfield,  111.  He 
has  traveled  quite  extensively  through  the  Central  and  South  American  Republics  and  Mexico  for  two  and  one-half 
years  just  past,  and  has  been  engaged  in  promoting  and  building  a  railroad  from  Grafcon,  111.,  to  Rock  Island.  He 
was  elec'ed  to  the  Assembly  from  the  Third  District  as  a  Republican,  although  his  district  has  been  largely  Democratic. 


JOHN  H.  PERRIN. 


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OHN  H.  PERRIN  is  the  Populist  who  represents  Linn  county  in  the 
Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  He  was  born  forty-nine  years  ago,  in 
old  Howard,  the  mother  of  Missouri  counties,  and  received  his  education  in 
its  public  schools.  Being  ambitious  to  become  a  doctor  of  medicine,  he 
graduated  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Keokuk,  Iowa.  He 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Lavinia  M.  Logan  of  Madison  county,  Ohio, 
and  is  the  father  of  a  bright  little  girl. 

Dr.  Perrin  enjoys  an  excellent  practice  at  Marceline,  in  the  county  in 
which  he  resides,  and  succeeds  in  making  a  comfortable  living.  He  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  in  Marceline,  member  of  the  Board  of 
Health,  School  Board,  and  Clerk  of  his  Township  Board.  In  politics  he  is 
an  ardent  Populist,  yet  liberal  minded  in  things  political,  and  was  elected  from  his  county  by  a  combination  of  Popu- 
lists and  Democrats.  He  is  a  man  who  has  thought  much  upon  political  problems  and  is  therefore  well  qualified  to 
fill  and  perform  the  duties  of  his  present  position. 


/    ED.  BOH  ART. 


AMONG  the  young  Democratic  Representatives  ia  the  Thirty-ninth 
General  Assembly  there  is  no  abler  man  than  J.  Ed.  Bohart,  who  rep- 
resents Clinton  county.  He  is  only  twenty-six  years  old,  and  was  born  in 
Andrew  county,  Mo.,  and  owes  all  that  he  is  to  the  good  people  of  this 
State,  who  have  recognized  his  ability  and  strong,  manly  character,  and  ele- 
vated him  to  his  present  position  of  honor  and  responsibility.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  University  of  Michigan,  and  afterward  entered  the  legal  depart- 
ment at  Ann  Arbor,  from  which  great  institution  he  graduated  with  honors. 
No  young  man  who  sits  in  the  present  Assembly  has  had  better  educational 
opportunities,  and  a  short  acquaintance  with  him  reveals  the  fact  that  he  has 
made  the  most  of  them.  He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Katherine 
Morgan,  of  Plattsburg,  the  town  in  which  he  now  lives,  and  is  the  father  of 
a  bright  little  boy  four  years  old.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Judiciary  Commit- 
tee, also  Banks  and  Banking,  and  the  Joint  Committee  on  Rules;  is  Chairman 
of  the  Committee  on  Justices  of  the  Peace,  and  also  of  several  special  committees.  On  all  of  them  his  influence  is  felt. 
He  practices  his  profession  at  Plattsburg,  and  also  owns  an  excellent  tract  of  land  upon  which  he  carries  on  a  stock- 
raising  and  shipping  business.  In  politics  he  is  an  uncompromising  Democrat,  and  carried  his  county  by  a  majority  of 
looo.  He  is  an  able  orator,  yet  is  not  affected  with  what  some  people  call  a  diarrhoea  of  speechmaking.  He  takes 
an  active  part  in  the  House  discussions,  and  when  he  speaks  has  something  to  say  and  receives  close  attention.  Edu- 
cated and  polished,  a  man  of  fine  intellect  and  a  host  of  warm  friends,  and,  together  with  these  qualities,  possessed 
of  the  elegant  bearing  of  a  man  and  statesman,  few  ambitious  young  fellows  in  the  State  have  a  brighter  future  than 
J.  Ed.  Bohart,  of  Clinton  county. 


JAMES  A.  DAUGHERTY. 


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AMES  A.  DAUGHERTY,  the  Representative  from  Jasper  county,  is  one 
of  the  substantial  Democrats  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly, 
who  can  always  be  depended  upon  to  cast  an  intelligent  ballot  upon  all  ques- 
tions which  come  up  for  consideration  before  that  body.  He  is  a  native  of 
Tennessee  and  was  born  in  that  State  August  30,  1847;  there  he  passed  his 
boyhood  days  and  was  educated  in  its  public  schools.  He  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Susanna  Freeman  of  Illinois,  and  is  the  father  of  eight  chil- 
dren; he  has  now  resided  in  Jaspar  county,  this  State,  a  little  over  twenty- 
nine  years. 

The  present  office  is  not  the  first  official  capacity  in  which  Mr.  Daugh- 
erty  has  served.  In  1890  he  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Western  District  in  his 
county,  and  re-elected  in  1892  to  the  same  position.  He  has  always  been  a 
Democrat  of  the  most  sterling  kind,  and  the  fact  that  he  now  represents  an 
iron  clad  Republican  county  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly,  is  sufficient  proof  of  his  personal  popularity 
among  the  people  of  his  home.  He  follows  the  farming  and  stock  raising  business  on  an  extensive  scale,  and  has 
been  quite  successful.  He  is  closely  allied  to  the  farmers'  interests  in  legislative  matters  and  is  in  every  way  a  man 
competent  to  discharge  the  duties  of  his  present  position.  He  has  made  many  warm  friends  in  the  Assembly  and  is 
an  honor  to  the  county  which  he  represents. 


W.  M.  MEYERSIECK. 


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M.  MEYERSIECK  represents  Franklin  county  in  the  Thirty- 
'  ninth  General  Assembly.  He  resides  at  Union,  where  he  was 
born  twenty-eight  years  ago.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  but 
afterward  attended  the  St.  Louis  Law  School;  however,  he  has  not  followed 
the  profession  for  which  his  educational  qualifications  fitted  him,  but  is  a 
farmer  by  occupation,  and  teaches  school  in  addition. 

He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  M.   C.  Dress,  of  the  town  in  which 

he  was  born,  and  is  the  father  of  one  bright  little  girl  baby,  which  is  one 

year  old. 

The  only  other  official  capacity  in  which  Mr.  Meyersieck  has  ever  served  was  that  of  Deputy  Sheriff  of  Franklin 

county  in  the  jears  1893-4-5-6.     He  has  taught  school  for  a  period  of  six  years,  and  was  Principal  of  the  Union  public 

schools  in  1895-6.     He  is  an  industrious   young  man,  and  fights  enthusiastically  in  the  battles  of  the  Republican 

minority  in  the  present  House. 

Mr.  Meyersieck  believes  firmly  and  zealously  in  the  principles  of  his  party,  ard  is  a  faithful  guardian  of  the 
interests  of  the  people  whom  he  represents  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


FRED  J.  HESS. 

I  ^RED  J.  HESS  makes  laws  for  the  citizens  of  Mississippi  county  in  the 
-'•  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  He  was  born  and  passed  his  early 
days  in  the  old  Southern  State  of  Tennessee  ;  in  1870  he  left  the  place  of  his 
birth  and  went  to  Hickman  county,  Kentucky,  in  which  county  he  served 
as  Prosecuting  Attorney  for  a  term  of  two  years.  In  1875  he  came  to  Mis- 
sissippi county,  Missouri,  and  has  lived  among  its  hospitable  people  ever 
since  ;  there  he  has  served  as  County  Judge,  and  was  also  elected  to  serve 
in  the  Thirty-sixth  General  Assembly. 

Mr.  Hess  is  not  married.  Politically  speaking  he  is  a  Democrat  of  the 
truest  variety,  and  is  always  ready  to  defend  and  fight  for  the  principles  founded  and  promulgated  by  that  great 
philosopher  and  statesman,  Thomas  JefiFerson.  He  is  one  of  the  most  substantial  Representatives  in  the  Thirty-ninth 
General  Assembly,  and,  being  jovial  and  amiable  by  nature,  numbers  his  friends  by  the  score. 

For  the  past  fifteen  years  he  has  devoted  himself  to  farming,  and  consequently  he  keeps  one  eye  continually 
open  for  legislation  in  the  interest  of  the  great  industrial  classes. 


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HARRY  CLYMER. 


ARRY  CLYMER  is  one  of  the  ablest  and  brightest  young  men  who  are 
sharing  in  the  woes  and  tribulations  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General 
Assembly.  He  is  twenty-six  years  old  and  was  born  in  Bates  county  of  this 
State,  and  will  probably  cast  his  destiny  among  its  people.  He  devoted  him- 
self industriously  to  the  interests  of  the  Republican  party  in  Crawford  county, 
which  he  represents  in  the  present  Assembly,  and  after  the  battle  was  over  and 
his  election  assured,  he  bent  his  efforts  to  a  nobler  and  more  gallant  purpose 
and  successfully  induced  a  pretty  young  lady,  Miss  Lillie  Harrison,  of  Steel- 
ville,  Mo.,  to  walk  to  the  hymeneal  altar  with  him,  and  they  were  married 
February  7,  1897.  As  "all  the  world  loves  a  lover, "  Mr.  Clymer  has  been 
the  recipient  of  many  pleasant  smiles  and  compliments  from  his  fellow  mem- 
bers. He  was  educated  in  the  common  and  private  Normal  schools  and  has 
taught  for  a  number  of  years.  He  then  read  law  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  at  the  age  of  twenty-two  and  has  much  promise  in  his  chosea  profession.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Judiciary  Com- 
mittee and  the  Committee  on  Official  Salaries  and  Fees.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Special  Committee  appointed 
by  the  Speaker  to  examine  into  alleged  police  frauds  in  St.  Louis  and  Kansas  City.  He  was  also  placed  on  a  num- 
ber of  other  important  Committees. 

He  has  a  personality  which  is  very  affable  and  has  many  friends.     As  a  legislator  he  is  competent  and  in  every 
able  and  qualified  to  represent  the  interests  of  the  people  of  Crawford  county. 


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PAUL  ELLIS. 


AUL  ELLIS  is  the  Republican  Representative  from  Wright  county  in 
the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  He  resides  at  Cedar  Gap  in  this 
county,  and  his  business  is  that  of  a  merchant,  at  which  vocation  he  has  had 
fair  success.  He  is  thirty-eight  years  of  age,  was  born  in  Webster  county, 
but  has  lived  the  greater  portion  of  his  time  in  the  county  which  has  sent 
him  to  the  present  Legislature,  He  was  educated  at  Mt.  Dale  Seminary, 
and  is  a  well  equipped  man  for  the  duties  which  devolve  upon  him  as  a 
Legislator. 

Mr.  Ellis  was  united  in  the  bonds  of  wedlock  to  Miss  Mollie  Pyatt, 
daughter  of  Judge  Pyatt  of  Wright  county,  and  is  the  father  of  two  bright 
children;  Jesse,  a  sturdy  little  fellow  of  twelve,  and  Willie,  a  sweet  cherub- 
faced  little  girl  of  six,  with  a  curly  head  and  blue  eyes.     Mr.  Ellis  is  an 
ardent  Republican  in  politics  and  has  a  well  grounded  faith  in  the  doctrines 
of  his  party.     He  is  a  quiet  man  personally  and  is  content  to  let  the  "other  fellows"  do  the  orating:  however,  he  takes 
a  keen  interest  in  all   legislative  matters,  and  is  one  of  the  strongest  men  in  the  Assembly,  who  helps  fight  the  bat- 
tles of  the  minority. 

Representative  Ellis  has  done  excellent  service  on  the  Appropriations  Committee,  also  on  the  Committees  on 
Commerce  and  Immigration. 


JOHN  M.  HARREL. 


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HE  old  rock-ribbed  county  of  Clay  is  represented  in  the  Thirty-ninth 


Kentucky,  thirty-nine  years  ago;  he  lived  in  his  native  State  for  fourteen 
years  and  then  came  to  the  grand  old  State  of  Missouri  to  cast  his  lot  with 
her  hospitable  people.  Mr.  Harrel  has  had  very  good  opportunities  in 
educational  respects,  and  secured  a  good  training  in  the  private  schools  of 
his  native  State.  He  is  an  able  fighter  and  takes  a  prominent  part  in  the 
House  debates.  He  is  the  author  of  the  Separate  Coach  Bill  and  made  a 
strong  and  determined  fight  for  it  on  the  floor  of  the  House.  He  has  been 
Chairman  of  the  Farmers'  Alliance  of  his  county  and  has  also  served  in  the 
same  capacity  for  the  Interstate  Alliance  of  Missouri  and  Kansas.  He  repre- 
sented Clay  county  in  the  Thirty-sixth  and  Thirty-seventh  General  Assem- 
blies. Mr.  Harrel  enjoys  the  distinction  of  being  the  only  man  who  ever 
succeeded  himself  in  the  Legislature  from  Clay  county.  He  is  ever  vigilant 
for  the  farmers'  interests  and  ever  ready  to  take  up  the  cudgel  in  a  political  fight  in  their  behalf  No  man  sits  in 
the  House  of  Representatives  to-day  who  enjoys  a  greater  degree  of  respect  in  the  minds  of  his  fellow  members  than 
John  M.  Harrel.  In  fact,  the  only  thing  that  reflects  against  his  Democracy  is  that  he  is  a  confirmed  old  bachelor. 
However,  when  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  has  become  a  matter  of  history  none  will  have  a  more  respected 
signature  upon  its  roster  than  John  M.  Harrel. 


ANDREW  J.    McCOLLUM. 


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NE  of  the  most  substantial  old  rock-ribbed  Democrats  in  the  present 


September  3,  1843,  in  Hickman  county,  Tennessee,  but  passed  the  majority 
of  his  days  in  Perry  county,  in  the  same  State.  In  1870  he  left  the  State  of 
his  nativity  and  came  to  Old  Missouri,  settling  in  Ripley  county,  and  there 
he  has  resided  ever  since.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Alice  Harrington  ia 
Perry  county,  Tennessee,  in  March,  1866,  and  of  this  marriage  two  children 
are  living;  his  wife  Alice  departed  this  life  in  May,  1879;  i*i  November,  1879, 
he  was  married  to  his  present  wife,  Emma  Berth,  and  of  this  marriage  has 
three  children  living. 

Mr.  McCollum  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  Perry  county, 
Tennessee,  and  during  the  late  war  fought  in  the  "  Lost  Cause."  He  was  in 
Company  H,  Forty-second  Tennessee  Infantry  Volunteers  ;  is  a  member  of  the  Composite  Lodge,  No.  369,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  and  also  belongs  to  Doniphan  Lodge,  No.  in,  K.  of  P.,  and  Doniphan  Lodge,  No.  338,  of  the  A.  O.  U.  W. 
He  was  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  and  Recorder  from  1875  to  1895  in  Ripley  county — elected  five  terms  in  succession; 
also  served  in  the  Thirty-eighth  Assembly  and  was  re-elected  to  the  present  one.  In  politics  Mr.  McCollum  has 
always  been  a  firm  and  uncompromising  Democrat,  and  has  ever  taken  an  interest  in  his  party's  battles;  his  popularity 
among  his  home  people  is  attested  by  the  fact  that  he  has  been  repeatedly  honored  with  public  office.  He  is  a  most 
amiable  gentleman,  and  as  a  legislator  he  is  thoroughly  competent  to  discharge  the  duties  of  his  position.  He  is  a 
lawyer,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1896. 


JOSEPH  BURROUGHS. 


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NE  of  the  brightest  young  Democratic  members  of  the  Thirty-ninth 


roughs  enjoys  the  distinction  of  being  the  youngest  member  of  the  present 
House,  as  he  is  only  twenty-five  years  old.  He  was  born  and  reared  in  the 
county  which  he  now  represents.  He  received  his  academic  education  in 
West  Plains  College,  and  afterward  studied  law  in  Cumberland  University, 
and  was  graduated  therefrom  and  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1896.  Mr.  Burroughs' 
father  died  when  he  was  only  fifteen  years  old,  leaving  him  as  the  eldest  of 
seven  children.  Thus  he  was  at  this  youthful  age  compelled  to  shoulder  the 
task  of  helping  his  mother  rear  her  family,  and  together  they  managed  to 
get  along  quite  nicely  upon  the  farm  left  them  by  their  father.  Mr.  Bur- 
roughs has  taught  school  at  different  times,  but  having  an  inherent  love  for 
politics  he  will  no  doubt  remain  in  their  turmoil  the  greater  part  of  his  life. 
He  is  the  author  of  several  important  measures  which  have  come  before  the  Thirty-ninth  Assembly,  and  is  a  very 
able  speaker  and  debater.  No  youug  man  has  taken  a  more  important  part  in  the  proceedings  of  the  House  than  he. 
Mr.  Burroughs  is  a  member  of  the  Committees  on  Elections  and  State  Library,  and  is  in  every  way  one  of  the  strong- 
est factors  and  most  brilliant  young  Democrats  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


WILLIAM  L.  SNIDOW. 


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'ILI/IAM  L.  SNIDOW,  who  represents  Hickory  county,  is  a  Virgi- 
nian, having  been  born  in  Giles  county,  February  13,  1829.  He 
obtained  the  rudiments  of  an  education  at  spare  times,  when  he  could  not 
be  engaged  on  his  father's  farm,  where  he  remained  until  twenty  years  of 
age.  At  that  time  he  married  Miss  Elizabeth  C.  Brown,  and  to  this  union 
have  been  born  ten  children.  In  1849  he  and  his  father  came  to  Missouri, 
settling  in  Monroe  county.  In  1856  Mr.  Snidow  removed  to  Hickory  county. 
He  has  served  as  Lieutenant  of  Militia  in  Virginia;  also  Captain  of  Militia 
in  Missouri,  also  saw  service  in  the  regular  army. 

In  1866  Mr.  Snidow  was  commissioned  by  Governor  Fletcher  to  organize 
the  Militia  of  Hickory  county.  After  the  war  he  served  as  School  Director 
and  as  Deputy  Sheriff.  In  1864  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate.  In  1865  he  was  chosen  Supervisor  of  Registration 
for  Hickory  county,  but  resigned.  He  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  from  his  county  in  1868,  1872,  1874,  1876,  1880, 
1884,  1886,  and  again  in  1896.  He  was  Assistant  U.  S.  Marshal  in  1870,  and  a  member  of  the  Union  Convention  at 
Jefferson  City  in  1863,  also  member  of  numerous  State  and  other  conventions.  Mr.  Snidow  was  a  Whig  until  that 
party  disbanded,  since  which  time  he  has  been  an  ardent  and  consistent  Republican.  His  long  service  in  the  Legis- 
lature and  his  strong,  sterling  traits  of  manhood  secure  for  him  the  high  respect  and  good  will  of  every  member  of  the 
Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 

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WADSWORTH  D.  LEEPER. 


AMONG  the  great  army  of  bright  ambitious  young  men  in  Missouri  who 
are  destined  to  soon  take  its  helm  of  State  in  their  own  hands,  i® 
Wadsworth  D.  Leeper,  the  promising  young  Democrat  and  politician  who 
represents  Livingston  county  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  He 
was  born  in  Chillicothe,  the  County  Seat  of  the  county  which  he  represents, 
ft;;twenty-nine  years  ago.  He  first  served  his  time  in  the  public  schools  of 
I  Livingston  county  and  afterward  entered  Central  College,  Fayette,  Mo.; 
attended  the  St.  Louis  Law  School  three  years;  not  content  with  the  instruc. 
tion  afforded  him  there,  he  entered  the  Legal  Department  of  Yale  University, 
and  graduated  therefrom  in  1893.  His  college  record  was  a  very  brilliant 
one.  While  at  Yale  he  was  awarded  second  honors  in. the  essay  contest,  and 
represented  the  Law  Department  in  the  Yale-Princeton  debate.  The  only 
political  office  he  ever  neia  previous  to  his  present  one  was  that  of  Mayor  of  Chillicothe  from  1895-6.  He  is  at  present 
a  member  of  the  Chapman  &  Leeper  law  firm  of  the  above  place  and  enjoys  a  lucrative  practice.  He  is  unmarried  — 
to  put  it  in  his  own  language,  he  is  treading  the  wine  press  alone;  just  how  long  he  will  remain  in  this  state,  however, 
is  a  very  indefinite  matter,  considering  a  certain  weakness  with  which  his  intimate  friends  know  him  to  be  very 
seriously  affected.  Mr.  Leeper  is  in  every  way  one  of  the  young  Democratic  leaders  of  the  House  and  enjoys  the 
admiration  and  respect  of  all  who  know  him.  With  a  polished  education,  a  lucrative  practice  in  his  chosen  profes- 
sion, a  host  of  friends  to  lend  him  an  assisting  hand,  few  young  men  in  this  State  have  a  brighter  future  thaa 
this  smooth  shaven  and  classic  featured  young  statesman  from  Livingston. 


GEORGE  A.  HART. 


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EORGE  A.  HART  represents  Benton  county,  the  border  land  of  the 
"  Big  Red  Apple  "  country  of  South  Missouri,  one  of  her  time- 
honored  County  Judges  and  life-long  agriculturists,  who  is  a  quiet  gentle- 
man, courteous,  sympathetic  and  greatly  admired  by  all  who  know 
him  closely.  He  was  born  in  Coffee  county,  Tennessee,  in  1840,  his  parents 
residing  iipon  a  farm,  where  he  learned  the  important  lessons  of  industry 
and  frugality  so  necessary  to  success  in  any  of  the  walks  of  life.  His  edu- 
cational advantages  were  only  such  as  the  common  schools  afforded,  but  his 
keen  desire  for  knowledge  made  him  a  hard-working  student,  and  especially 
has  he  read  extensively  upon  the  lines  of  agriculture,  horticulture  and  polit- 
ical economy.  Mr.  Hart  was  married  in  Tennessee  to  Miss  Drewsilla 
Robinson.  He  is  now  the  father  of  eight  children,  five  of  whom  are  mar- 
ried. He  moved  to  Missouri  in  1859,  locating  in  the  county  which  now 
honors  him  with  a  seat  in  the  Legislature.  Benton  county  has  often  called 
upon  Mr.  Hart  to  fill  the  official  position  of  County  Judge;  and  he  has 
served  in  that  capacity  ten  years — one  term  as  Associate  Judge  and  two  terms 
as  Presiding  Judge.  He  has  held  other  oflfices  in  the  county,  and  the  acceptable  manner  in  which  he  has  always 
acquitted  himself  in  any  public  position  has  given  him  great  prestige  among  his  constituents.  He  is  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  M.  E.  Church  and  gives  with  a  liberal  hand.  At  present  he  is  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business 
at  Warsaw,  and  is  also  owner  of  a  fine  Benton  county  farm.  In  politics  he  is  an  ardent  Republican,  and  in  the  role 
of  a  citizen  is  greatly  respected  at  home,  and  always  ready  to  encourage  enterprises  calculated  to  benefit  his  county 
and  home  town.  At  Warsaw  or  in  Benton  county  there  are  few  noticeable  marks  of  public  spirit  which  have  not  had 
behind  them  the  approved  and  energetic  support  of  George  A.  Hart. 


WILLIAM  BREUER. 


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'ILLIAM  BREUER  is  one  of  the  substantial  Republican  Representa- 
tives in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  He  was  born  October 
25,  1835,  i"  Prussia  and  emigrated  to  this  country  in  1842.  He  represents 
Gasconade  county  in  the  present  House,  but  passed  his  boyhood  days  and 
grew  to  manhood  in  Franklin  county,  Missouri.  He  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Eda  Mattock,  of  Phelps  county,  and  is  the  father  of  twelve  chil- 
dren. He  was  elected  Judge  of  Gasconade  county  from  1890  to  1894;  he 
was  also  Second  Lieutenant  of  Company  K,  Thirty-fourth  Regiment, 
Enrolled  Militia  of  Missouri.  In  politics  he  has  always  been  an  earnest 
Republican  and  believes  that  the  principles  of  that  great  party  are  subserv- 
ient to  the  greatest  interests  of  the  general  people.  He  is  a  farmer,  and  consequently  is  much  interested  in  legislation 
pertaining  to  the  interests  of  the  industrial  classes.  He  is  in  every  sense  a  reliable  legislator  and  a  good  man  to 
represent  Gasconade  county. 


ALFRED    DA  VAULT. 


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^NE  of  the  truest  and  safest  men  in  the  Legislative  body  is  Alf 
Davault,  representing  the  splendid  county  of  Montgomery.  He  was 
born  in  that  county,  April  14,  1842,  and  reared  near  the  town  of  New  Flor- 
ence, where  he  got  most  of  his  education  in  the  common  schools.  Later  he 
attended  school  in  Toronto,  Canada.  By  occupation  he  is  a  farmer,  and  in 
politics  a  Democrat  of  the  truest  type.  Mr.  Davault  is  a  man  who  stands 
high  among  his  people.  He  held  the  office  of  Sheriff  of  his  county  for  two 
terms — 1874  to  1878  inclusive.  He  represented  his  county  in  the  Thirty- 
sixth  and  Thirty-seventh  General  Assemblies,  and  gave  such  general  Siitis- 
faction  that  he  was  returned  to  the  Thirty-ninth.  In  the  Thirty-Seventh  he 
served  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Roads  and  Highways.  In  the  Thirty-ninth  he  is  Chairman  of  the  Commit- 
tee on  Accounts,  and  fills  the  place  to  perfection.  Mr.  Davault  married  Miss  Lizzie  Gardner,  of  New  Florence,  Mo., 
and  their  union  has  been  blessed  with  six  children.  In  Mr.  Davault  the  people  of  Montgomery  have  a  representative 
who  is  prudent,  safe,  reliable,  and  who  commands  the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow-members  to  the  highest 
degree.     He  would  ba  a  credit  to  any  county  in  the  State. 


ERNST   W.  MOELLER. 


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HE  subject  of  this  short  biographical  sketch  is  Ernst  W.  Moeller,  who 
is  one  of  the  substantial  Republican  members  of  the   House.     He 
resides  at  2226  Biddle  street,  St.  Louis.     He  is  forty-six  years  old  and  was 
born  in  Germany,  the  land  of  armies  and  iron  men. 

Mr.  Moeller  came  to  St.  Louis  in  1865  and  began  work  as  a  cabinet- 
maker; afterward  he  branched  out  into  the  planing-mill  business  and  is  still 
in  that  line. 

Representative  Moeller  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Eppmeyer  and 
is  the  father  of  seven  children,  one  boy  and  six  girls. 

Mr.  Moeller  has  always  been  a  stanch  Republican,  and  believes  that  the 

great  dominant  principles  inculcated  in  that  party  will  work  the  greatest 

good  to  the  greatest  number.     Being  a  laboring  man,  Mr.  Moeller  knows  their  condition  and  votes  in  sympathy  with 

them  upon  all  reasonable  legislative  questions.     He  is  by  nature  rugged  and  honest — that  characteristic  which  marks 

all  sturdy  Germans. 

Representative  Moeller  is  not  an  orator,  and  hence  does  not  impose  his  eloquence  or  gesticulations  upon  the  Thirty- 
ninth  Assembly.  However  he  studies  legislation  carefully,  and  casts  as  nearly  as  is  within  his  power  an  intelligent 
vote  upon  the  roll  calls  to  which  he  responds. 


JAMES  W.  DAVIS. 


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*HE  following  is  a  brief  sketch  of  James  W.  Davis,  the  popular  young 
Representative  from  Chariton  county  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General 
Assembly.  He  is  thirty-two  years  old,  and  was  born  near  Brunswick,  Mo. ; 
he  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  county  and  afterward  completed 
his  education  in  the  State  University.  Being  ambitious  to  become  a  lawyer, 
he  made  himself  proficient  in  this  profession,  and  having  quite  a  degree  of 
adaptability  in  this  line  he  has  a  brilliant  future  in  the  line  of  his  chosen 
vocation. 

He  has  maintained  a  state  of  single  blessedness  up  to  this  time,  but 
being  extremely  fond  of  everything  feminine,  he  is  apt  to  go  through 
a  transformation  at  almost  any  time.  He  subsribes  himself  a  i6  to  i  Democrat,  andis  an  enthusiastic  believer  in 
Democratic  doctrines.  He  is  an  influential  young  member  in  the  House  and  takes  an  active  part  in  all  legislative 
matters.  Starting  upon  his  political  career  thus  early,  and  having  a  host  of  warm  friends,  there  appears  no  fore- 
boding on  the  future's  horizon  for  James  W.  Davis. 


CHARLES  W.    CLARKE. 


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CHARLES  W.  CLARKE  is  one  of  the  leading  Republican  members  of 
the  minority  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.     He  was  born 


fifty-four  years  ago  in  the  State  of  Vermont,  but  passed  his  boyhood  days  and 

grew  to  manhood  in  Ohio. 

He  was  educated  at  Hiram  College;  is  an  attorney  by  profession,   and 

has  had  a  great  deal  of  important  practice  in  his  time;  he  came  to  this  State 

from  Mississippi  in  1883. 

He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Marie  Loveland  of  Halifax,   Nova 

Scotia,  and  has  no  children. 

He  is  a  firm  Republican  and  assists  the  minority  in  its  trials  and  troubles 

in  the  present  Assembly  in  a  very  efifective  manner.  He  has  held  the  office 
of  Probate  Judge,  was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  in  Mississippi,  and  was  a  delegate  to  the  National 
Convention  which,  nominated  James  A.  Garfield  for  president.  He  was  a  captain  before  the  close  of  the  war,  is  a 
member  of  the  Christian  Church  and  for  ten  years  has  been  very  active  in  Sunday  School  work.  From  the  fact  of  his 
long  political  experience  and  his  vast  information  he  has  proven  himself  a  worthy  member  and  is  thoroughly  compe- 
tent to  represent  the  people  of  Kansas  City.  It  was  through  his  effiarts  that  the  Fraternal  Insurance  Bill  was 
passed,  and  Kansas  City  was  exempt  from  the  School  Text  Book  Bill. 


HARRY  R.    WALMSLEY. 


THE  subject  of  this  sketch  is  Harry  R.  Walmsley,  one  of  the  Republican 
members  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.  He  resides  in  Kansas 
City  and  represents  one  of  its  legislative  districts.  He  is  self  educated  and 
is  a  young  man  who  has  made  the  most  of  his  opportunities.  He  was  reared 
in  Kansas  City  and  is  twenty-eight  years  old.  He  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Lillie  B.  Sprague,  of  Pleasant  Hill,  Mo.,  and  is  the  father  of  two  bright 
little  boys.  In  politics  he  has  always  been  a  stanch  Republican,  and  takes 
active  part  in  the  measures  of  the  present  House.  He  is  a  capable  Repre- 
sentative and  competent  to  represent  his  constituency. 


MARSHALL  JAY  JENKINS. 


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ARSHALIv  JAY  JENKINS  is  one  of  the  sturdy  men  who  have  made 


county,  where  he  resides  on  a  farm.     He  was  born   September  ir,  1838,    in 

Wayne  county,  Mich.,  and  passed  his  younger  days  in  his  native  State   and 

Iowa.     He  received  his  education  in  a  Seminary  and  Western  College,  which 

institutions  are  both  located  in  Linn  county,  Iowa.     Mr.  Jenkins  was  united 

in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  A.  Garland,  of  Nodaway  county,    Mo.,  and  is  the 

father  of  four  children,   three  of  whom  died  in  infancy.     The  other,  Ordelia' 

is  married  to  Mr.  C.  T,  Howard,  and  the  young  people  live  on  Mr.  Jenkins' 

premises.     He  left  Iowa  for  DeKalb  county.  Mo.,  April,  i860,  and  afterward 

resided  for  seven  years  in  Kansas;  he  then  came  to  Jasper  county,  Missouri, 

in    October,    1868,    and    has    resided    there    ever    since.       The    principal 

mission  of   his  life    has  been   that  of  a    minister  of  the    gospel,    though 

he  has  taught  school  a  great  deal  and  is  at  present  residing  on  a  farm — yet  he  has  never  given  up  the 
ministry,  and  looks  upon  the  expounding  of  its  holy  truths  as  his  greatest  life  work.  He  has  received  into  the  church 
over  1,600  members,  more  than  1,000  of  whom  he  has  baptised.  He  belongs  to  the  Disciples  of  Christ,  and  thinks 
the  church  people  should  concern  themselves  with  the  affairs  of  State.  In  politics  he  is  a  Populist,  but  is  loyal  to  the 
true  spirit  of  the  great  silver  campaign  as  expressed  by  the  Bryan  Democracy.  From  i860  to  1872  he  voted  the 
Republican  ticket,  but  the  Crime  of  "73"  drove  him  into  the  reform  ranks  and  therefore  he  voted  for  Cooper,  Weaver 
and  finally  for  Bryan.  In '72  he  voted  for  Greely.  Mr.  Jenkins  is  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Claims,  and  also 
serves  on  the  Committee  on  Local  Bills,  and  on  Emigration.  He  is  a  man  well  qualified  to  perform  the  duties  of  a 
legislator. 


FRANK   C.  SICKLES. 


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'RANK  C.  SICKLES  is  one  of  the  substantial  men  in  the  Republican 

minority  in  the  Thirty-ninth   General   Assembly.     He  is   forty-four 

years  old,  was  born  in  Clark  county,  Mo. ,  and  has  spent  all  his  life  in  this 

State.     He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  and  is  a  man  who  has  made 

the  most  of  his  opportunities— something  which  can  not  be  said  of  every 

one.     He  perfected  himself  in  the  study  of  law,  and  is  at  the  present  time 

practicing  his  profession  in  Putnam  county,  whose  people  he  represents  in 

the  present  General  Assembly. 

Mr.   Sickles  was  united  in  marriage  January,    1878,  to  Miss  Mary  E. 

Fisher,  of  Schuyler  county,  and  they  have  one  son.  In  the  year  of  1882  Mr.  Sickles  was  elected  as  Prosecuting  Attor- 
ney of  Schuyler  county,  for  a  term  of  two  years,  and  after  he  moved  to  Putnam  county  was  elected  to  the  same  office 
in  1892  without  opposition.     In  both  counties  he  made  an  able  and  efficient  public  prosecutor. 

Mr.  Sickles  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  by  a  majority  of  974;  he  is  a  member  of  the  Committees  on  Criminal 
Jurisprudence  and  Township  Organization.  He  takes  an  active  part  in  all  legislation  that  comes  up  for  consideration 
before  the  House,  and  makes  his  position  known  in  no  uncertain  manner.  He  is  thoroughly  competent  to  guard  the 
interests  of  the  citizens  of  Putnam  county. 


CHARLES  A.  DOUGHERTY. 


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*HE  subject  of  this  sketch  is  Charles  A.  Dougherty,  the  Democratic 
Representative  from  Howard  county.  Mr.  Dougherty  was  born  and 
reared  in  old  Howard — "The  Mother  of  Counties,"  and  educated  in  the  com- 
mon public  schools;  is  a  farmer  and  is  in  good  circumstances,  being  a  man 
who  is  economical  and  a  tireless  worker.  It  is  to  him  that  belongs  the 
credit  of  first  proposing  the  reduction  of  freight  rates,  and  in  an  interview 
which  was  given  by  him  to  the  press  he  outlined  the  policy  which  has  been 
pursued  by  the  House  during  the  past  session.  Mr.  Dougherty  is  fifty  years 
old,  and  a  man  of  great  physical  strength  and  endurance.  He  is  very  popu- 
lar among  the  people  of  his  own  county  and  enjoys  the  respect  and  confi- 
dence of  every  man  connected  with  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 
His  popularity  at  home  is  attested  by  the  fact  that  this  is  his  third  term  in 
the  Legislature,  having  served  in  the  Thirty-sixth  and  Thirty-seventh 
Assemblies ;  is  married  and  has  three  children.     Mr.  Dougherty  takes  no 

very  active  part  in  the  House  wrangles  unless  he  happens  to  be  especially  interested  in  the  matter  under  discussion. 

His  judgment,  however,  is  unusually  good  from  the  fact  of  his  long  legislative  experience;  he  is  considered  by  all  as 

thoroughly  safe  and  conservative  legislator;  was  one  of  the  committee  appointed  to  investigate  the  Kansas  City 
■  police  muddle,  and  is  a  member  of  a  number  of  other  important  committees  in  the  House.     He  is  a  man  eminently 

honest,  shrewd  and  an  honor  to  "old  Howard." 


Short  Sketches  of  Other  Members  of  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 


W.  M.  WEAVER,  (Democrat),  of  Springfield,  Green  county.  Born  in  Green  county.  Mo.,  in  1830;  Assessor, 
Deputy  Sheriff,  Justice  and  member  Legislature.     Lawyer;  married. 

JOSEPH  WOOD,  (Democrat),  of  Daviess  county.  Born  in  Indiana  in  1831;  educated  in  common  and  high 
schools;  Collector  of  Daviess  county  three  years.     Farmer  and  preacher;  married. 

CAREY  W.  COLE,  farmer  and  Free  Silver  Democrat,  represents  the  County  of  Ralls.  Post  office  address  West 
Hartford,  Mo.     Born  July  27,  1853.     Married. 

WILBUR  F.  ARNOLD,  (Democrat),  represents  the  County  of  St.  Francois.  Was  born  at  Bonne  Terre,  and  educated 
at  Irondale,  Mo.     Post  office  address  is  Bonne  Terre,  Mo.     Married. 

EDWARD  J.  DUNN,  who  represents  the  Fifth  Legislative  District  of  St.  Louis,  is  a  Republican.  Born  at  Du 
Quoin,  111.,  and  educated  at  Jacksonville;  was  Prosecuting  Attorney  two  terms  at  Jacksonville,  Illinois.  Insurance 
agent;  married. 

HENRY  C.  ERMAN,  (Republican).  Was  born  in  Virginia  in  1847;  removed  to  Missouri  in  1850.  Represents 
the  Sixth  District  of  St.  Louis  City.     Married. 

G.  R.  CURRY  (Republican),  of  Dillia,  Mo.,  was  born  in  Tennessee  thirty-six  years  ago  ;  educated  in  common 
schools  ;  Representative  of  Ozark  county  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly.     Farmer  ;  married. 

WILLIAM  A.  WIGHT,  (Democrat),  of  Moberly,  Randolph  county,  is  a  native  of  the  county  he  now  repre- 
sents ;  was  for  many  years  Secretary  of  the  Moberly  Fair  Association  and  was  postmaster  of  Moberly  four  years. 
Married. 

THOMAS  H.  IJAMS  (Republican),  from  the  Sixth  District,  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Fairfield  county,  Ohio  ; 
educaed  at  Logansport,  Ind. ;  served  in  ther  Union  Army  from  1861  to  1865.     Broker  ;  married. 

R.  L.  MACEY,  (Democrat),  of  Hardin,  Ray  county.  Born  in  Miami,  Saline  county,  Mo.,  1863;  was  teacher  six 
years  in  Saline  and  principal  Hardin  public  schools.     Editor;  married. 

JOHN  B.  CALDWELL,  (Democrat),  of  St.  Marys,  St.  Genevieve  county.  Born  in  St.  Genevieve  county,  Mo., 
in  1854.     Retired  farmer;  married. 


ARCH  H.  CASHION  (Republican)  representing  Perry  county,  was  born  at  Perry ville,  Mo.,  October  i8,  1839;  ^^^ 
served  his  people  as  Justice  of  the  Peace,  Sheriff,  Collector  and  Representative.  Married  Miss  M.  R.  Brewer,  of  Per- 
ryville.     Farmer. 

WILLIAM  H.  HAMILTON  (Democrat),  of  Warrensburg,  Johnson  county,  is  forty-nine  years  old;  was  County 
Assessor  in  1886  and  re-elected  in  1888.  Farmer;  married.  They  have  one  daughter,  Miss  Druna,  who  holds  a  posi- 
tion on  the  Engrossing  force  of  the  House. 

THOMAS  N.  BRADFORD  (Democrat),  Representative  from  Texas  county,  is  56  years  old;  served  his  county  as 
Sheriff  and  Sheriff  and  Collector;  member  of  the  Thirty-second  General  Assembly,  and  again  elected  to  represent  his 
county  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly;  married. 

vSYDNOR  B.  BURKS,  Second  District  (  Democrat ),  of  Slater,  who  represents  Saline  county  in  the  Thirty-ninth 
General  Assembly,  was  born  in  Appomattox  count}^  Va.,  April  9,  1852,  removing  to  this  State  in  August,  1868  ;was 
City  Attorney  of  Slater  for  ten  years.     Lawyer;  married. 

MATTHEW  W.  HALL,  Jr.,  First  District  Saline  county  (Democrat),  of  Marshall,  member  of  the  Thirty-ninth 
General  Assembly,  is  a  native  of  Missouri,  born  at  Arrow  Rock,  Saline  county,  August  16,  1853;  received  a  common 
school  education;  elected  Circuit  Clerk  of  Saline  county  in  1886,  serving  two  terms.     Farmer;  married. 

CHARLES  H.  ROHNE,  Fifth  District,  St.  Louis  City.  (Republican),  member  of  the  Lower  House  of  the  Thirty- 
ninth  General  Assembly,  was  born  in  Hanover,  Germany;  immigrated  to  America  in  1852,  locating  in  St,  Louis;  was 
educated  in  the  city  of  his  adoption;  was  a  member  of  the  85th  Missouri  State  militia.     Grocer;  married. 

WILLIAM  I.  COX,  (Democrat),  of  Montecello,  Representative  from  Lewis  county,  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General 
Assembly.  Was  born  in  Campbell  county  (now  Benton),  Ky.,  and  removed  to  Missouri  June,  1856,  locating  in  the 
county  he  now  represents;  was  Assessor  of  Lewis  county  in  1868;  married  in  1856  to  Sarah  A.  Finley,  of  Lewis  county. 
Farmer. 

JOHN  J.  SAWYER,  (Republican),  of  Fruitland,  Cape  Girardeau  county,  member  of  the  House  in  the  Thirty- 
ninth  General  Assembly.  Was  born  in  Caswell  county,  North  Carolina,  January  8,  1833;  came  to  Missouri  in  1850, 
locating  in  Cape  Girardeau  county;  was  a  member  of  the  Enrolled  Missouri  militia;  elected  County  Judge  in  1884  and 
again  in  1886;  elected  County  Treasurer  in  1888,  serving  two  terms;  member  Thirty-seventh  General  Assembly. 
Farmer;  married. 

ROWLAND  L.  JOHNSTON,  First  District,  St.  Louis  county,  (Republican),  member  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General 
Assembly,  of  Old  Orchard, is  a  native  Missourian,  born  in  Pike  county,  April  23,  1870;  he  is  self-educated,  never  having 
attended  school  a  day  in  his  life;  at  an  early  age  he  went  to  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  and  later  to  St.  Louis  county. 
Lawyer;  single. 


ALONZO  TUBES  (Republican),  of  Feuersville,  who  represents  Osage  county  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assem- 
bly, was  born  at  New  Albany,  Ind.,  January  15,  1840;  educated  iu  the  public  schools  of  his  native  State;  at  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  Rebellion  in  1861  he  recruited  a  company  and  was  mustered  into  the  Federal  service  as  Captain  Com- 
pany G,  Twenty-third  Indiana  Ihfantry,  July  29;  served  in  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee  from  Shiloh  to  Vicksburg;  was 
taken  prisoner  during  the  Vicksburg  campaign,  and  saw  but  little  active  service  after  that  time,  being  held  a  prisoner 
of  war  until  Feb.,  1865;  promoted  to  rank  of  Major  when  exchanged,  and  iinally  mustered  out  of  service  July  23, 
1865;  came  to  Missouri  in  1867;  taught  school  in  Osage  and  Gasconade  counties,  and  in  the  spring  of  1870  commenced 
the  practice  of  medicine,  which  profession  he  has  ever  since  followed;  has  been  a  member  of  the  Legislature  for  five 
consecutive  terms,  serving  in  the  Thirtj'-fifth,  Thirty-sixth,  Thirty-seventh  Thirty-eighth  and  Thirty-ninth  General 
Assemblies.     Married. 

RUDOLPH  W.  MUELLER  (Republican),  of  Augusta,  Representative  from  St.  Charles  county,  was  born  in  the 
county  which  he  represents  June  3,  1843;  is  endebted  to  his  mother  for  his  earlier  instruction,  and  later  attended  the 
public  schools;  served  in  the  ist  battalion,  U.  S.  reserve  corps,  and  42d  regiment  M.  S.  M.;  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  ten 
years,  and  has  served  as  U.  S.  census  officer,  and  Deputy  Assessor;  member  Thirty-fourth,  Thirty-fifth  and  Thirty-sixth 
General  Assemblies;  Speaker  pro  tem  of  the  Thirty-eighth  General  Assembly.     Farmer;  married. 

FREDERICK  WILLIAM  SCHUMACHER,  Second  District  St.  Louis  city,  (Republican),  was  born  in  St.  Louis, 
Nov.  22,  1859;  educated  in  the  city  public  schools;  member  of  the  Thirty-eighth  General  Assembly,  and  re-elected 
to  the  Thirty-ninth  Assembly.     Grocer;  single. 

CHAS.  ERHART  (Republican),  Representative  from  St.  Louis  City,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  May  10,  i860;  edu- 
cated in  the  public  and  private  schools  of  that  city.     Cooper;  married. 

DANIEL  LOVEL  RUSSELL  (Democrat);  of  New  Madrid,  who  represents  New  Madrid  county  in  the  Thirty- 
ninth  General  Assembly,  was  born  on  the  old  Russell  farm,  situate  four  miles  from  New  Madrid  and  three  miles  from 
the  old  fort,  March  7,  1862,  amid  the  roar  of  cannon  and  the  rattle  of  musketry  as  the  Union  forces  bombarded  the 
old  fort;  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  at  Cape  Girardeau  Normal;  has  served  his  county  as  Constable  and 
Deputy  Sheriff.  Member  of  the  Thirty-eighth  General  Assembly  and  re-elected  to  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 
Farmer  and  merchant;  married. 

G.  PURD  HAYS  (Republican),  of  Ozark,  Christian  county.  Born  in  Greene  county,  Mo.,  1865  ;  educated  in 
Missouri  schools.     Lawyer. 

GOLDBURN  H.  WILSON  (Republican),  of  St.  Louis  City.  Born  in  Rock  Island,  111.,  in  1864  ;  educated  at 
Missouri  University  and  St.  Louis  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.     Physician  ;  married. 

PATRICK  J.  REAGAN  (Republican)  from  St.  Louis  City,  bom  January  t,  1863,  Roscommon  county,  Ireland 
educated  in  public  schools  of  Ireland  and  St.  Louis,  also  at  Commercial  college;  was  Deputy  Collector  in  St.  Louis; 
seven  years.     Came  to  Missouri  fourteen  years  ago  from  Providence,  Rhode  Island.     Book-keeper;  married.    * 


GEORGE  B.  MYERS,  (Democrat),  of  Lutesville,  Bollinger  county.  Born  in  Bollinger  county,  Mo. ;  age  thirty- 
six;  educated  in  public  school.  Cape  Normal  University  of  Kentucky;  been  County  School  Commissioner,  Chair- 
man Democratic  County  Committee,  Grand  Master  I.  O.  O.  F.  Lodge,  etc.     Farmer  and  teacher;  married. 

GEORGE  FARRAR,  (Democrat),  of  Belleview,  Iron  county.  Born  in  Arcadia  Valley;  age  thirty-eight;  reared  in 
Iron  county.     Physician;  married. 

JESSE  h.  EATON,  (Democrat),  of  Washington  county.  Born  in  Belgrade,  Mo.;  age  thirty-three  years;  educated 
at  Carleton  Institute;  member  Thirty-sixth  and  Thirty-seventh  General  Assemblies.     Physician;  married. 

FRANCIS  A.  REBO  (Democrat),  of  Kahoka,  Clark  county.  Born  in  1851.  Lawyer,  teacher,  editor  ;  been  Public 
Administrator,  City  Judge,  Representative,  also  Assistant  Engrossing  Clerk  and  Doorkeeper.     Single. 

WEBB  M  RUBEY  (Democrat),  who  represents  Macon  county,  is  a  native  of  Pike  county.  Mo.,  but  has  resided 
in  Macon  since  boyhood.  Has  served  as  Clerk  of  County  Court  and  State  Senator  in  1876.  Lawyer  and  banker ; 
married. 

JAMES  McCANN  (Republican),  of  Bosworth,  Carroll  county,  was  born  in  the  county  which  he  represents  June 
27,  1867  ;  educated  at  William  Jewell  College,  Liberty,  Mo.,  and  State  University.     Lawyer  ;  married. 

WILLIAM  C.  ALLDREDGE,  (People's  Party),  of  Latham,  Moniteau  county.  Born  in  Tennessee  in  1837;  mem- 
ber Missouri  Legislature  in  1879;  was  a  Captain  in  Confederate  Army.     Farmer;  widower. 

OMER  H.  AVERY,  (Democrat),  of  Troy,  Lincoln  county.  Born  in  that  county  in  1854;  educated  in  common 
schools,  Troy  Academy  and  State  University.  Lawyer.  Been  Prosecuting  Attorney,  member  Thirty-eighth  and 
Thirty-ninth  General  Assemblies.     Married. 

PHILIP  KRAMME,  (Republican)  of  St.  Louis  City.  Born  in  Germany;  age  forty -six.  Educated  in  private 
schools  ;  grocer  ;  married. 

ALONZO  S.  PRATHER  (Republican),  of  Taneyville,  Taney  county.  Born  in  Indiana  ;  age  fifty-seven  ;  edu- 
cated at  Asbury  University,  Indiana  ;  held  Land  Office  ;  was  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  in  Arkansas ; 
member  of  Thirty -fifth  General  Assembly.     Farmer  ;  married. 

JOHN  T.  AVERILL  (Democrat),  of  Gayosa,  Pemiscot  county.  Born  in  Pemiscot  county,  Mo. ;  educated  in 
common  schools  and  State  Normal ;  has  been  County  Assessor,  Sheriff",  Collector.     Farmer  ;  married. 


ASSISTANT  CHIEF  CLERK. 


THE  accompanying  cut  is  a  likeness  of  the  genial  and  popular  Assistant 
Chief  Clerk,  R.  Pet  Thompson.  He  resides  at  Cassville,  Barry  county 
Mo.,  but  was  born  in  Monroe  county  forty-five  years  ago.  He  passed  his 
boyhood  days  in  old  Audrain  and  Randolph  counties  and  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  and  afterward  completed  his  course  iu  Mt.  Pleasant  Col- 
lege at  Huntsville,  Mo.  By  profession  he  is  a  newspaper  publisher  and  is  in 
every  sense  of  the  word  a  typical  Missouri  editor. 

His  wife,  who  was  Virginia  A.  Stone  of  St.  Louis,  died  at  Cassville,  Mo., 
December  19,  1896,  leaving  him  four  children  to  comfort  her  loss;  they  are 
Albert,  aged  twenty-one;  Inez,  aged  eighteen;  Lucile,  fourteen;  and  Elaine, 
twelve.  He  was  Official  Reporter  of  the  Thirty-fourth  and  Thirty-fifth 
General  Assemblies,  Assistant  Grain  Inspector  of  St.  Louis  in  iS89-'90,  and 
was  Chief  Grain  Inspector  of  Nebraska  in  1891-2,  and  was  unanimously  elected  as  Assistant  Chief  Clerk  to  this 
the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly. 

Mr.  Thompson  is  very  popular  among  the  House  members  irrespective  of  party;  he  is  genial  in  manner  and  is 
always  ready  to  make  a  self-sacrifice  in  order  to  please  some  one  else.  He  is  a  perfect  little  gentleman  and  if  a  prize 
were  awarded  to  the  most  popular  officer  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  it  would  undoubtedly  and  deservedly 
fall  to  "Pet"  Thompson. 


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OFFICIAL  REPORTER  OF  THE  HOUSE. 


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/'^  HAS.  L.  JOHNSON,  who  was  unanimously  elected  Official  Reporter 
^— -^  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  was  born  August  2,  1866,  in  Warrens- 
burg,  Johnson  county,  Mo.,  where  he  now  resides.  Was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  State  Normal  at  that  place;  is  a  Democrat  and  formerly 
held  the  position  of  Chief  Journal  Clerk  on  the  Chief  Clerk's  force.  Was 
married  February  7,  1894,  to  Miss  Jessie  Evans,  of  Butler,  Mo.  Mr.  Johnson  is  a 
pleasant  and  genial  fellow  that  can  well  claim  every  member  on  the  floor  of 
the  House  as  his  friend.  As  offiicial  reporter  he  discharged  his  duties  most 
efficiently  and  faithfully. 


DOOR-KEEPER   OF  THE  HOUSE. 


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*HE  accompanying  cut  is  a  likeness  of  Wm.  Malone,  the  big  souled,  big 
hearted  Door-keeper  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly;  was  born  in 
Ohio  the  state  of  John  Sherman  and  Mark  Hanna,  in  1866  and  came  to  Mis- 
souri with  his  parents  in  1870.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  this 
State  and  the  Warrensburg  Normal;  graduated  fromSpaulding's  Commercial 
college  in  1885.  After  completing  his  education  he  taught  for  a  number  of 
years,  always  commanding  the  highest  salaries.  In  1893  he  became  city  editor 
of  the  Journal  Democrat,  of  Warrensburg,  and  soon  after  became  the  pro- 
prietor of  the  Johnson  County  Union.  His  management  of  the  latter  was  so 
popular  that  it  was  made  the  official  organ  of  the  Sixth  Congressional  Dis- 
trict by  the  People's  Party  Congressional  Committee.  Afterward  he  sold  the 
Union  to  J.  B.  McDonald  and  became  editor  and  business  manager  of  the 
Southwest  News,  Greenfield,  Mo.,  which  is  at  present  the  official  organ  of 
Dade  county.  Mr.  Malone  is  a  man  peculiarl}'  fitted  for  newspaper  work; 
he  believes  in  political  reform  and  accompanies  his  belief  by  hard  and 
unrelenting  work.  It  is  through  his  untiring  efforts  that  a  Democratic- 
Populistic  Representative  sits  in  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  from  Dade  county.  His  county,  although  an  iron 
clad  Republican  stronghold  for  thirty  years,  yielded  to  the  power  of  Democracy  in  the  last  election  and  no  man 
deserves  more  credit  for  it  than  the  big  Populist  who  was  the  Door-keeper  of  the  House  of  Representatives.  Mr. 
Malone  is  a  man  of  liberal  views  on  all  questions,  but  is  an  ardent  believer  in  the  theory  of  Bimetallism.  As  a  mixer 
and  a  handshaker  there  are  few  men  in  the  State  who  surpass  him.  Big,  bread-shouldered  in  stature,  with  a  jovial 
countenance  and  a  kind  and  cheering  word  for  everybody;  he  is  admired  and  respected  by  all  who  know  him.  With 
his  honesty,  unquestioned  ability  and  liberality  of  views,  Malone  is  a  man  upon  whom  the  political  goddess  of  Mis- 
souri is  yet  destmed  to  bestow  her  laurel  wreaths  of  success. 


WILLIAM  M.  PRO  TTSMAN. 


THE  calendar  history  of  all  men  is  very  simple.  But 
npon  this  plain  outline  all  men  work  ont  the  chief 
end  of  their  existence— human  character.  Eeputa- 
tion  may  be  as  evanescent  as  the  shifting  scenes  of  a 
dieam,  but  character  is  the  man  forever  and  ever. 

There  is  really  but  little  interest  in  the  duties  and  official 
titles  of  men,  but  the  deeds  achieved,  the  virtues  matured, 
and  the  character  developed,  are  the  chief  points  of  ob- 
servation. 

Licensed  to  preach  under  the  Discipline  of  the  Methodist 
Church  in  1>S42,  he  traveled  as  an  itinerant  preacher  of  that 
Church  in  the  States  of  Virginia,  Kentucky,  Missouri  and 
California. 

Mr.  Prottsman  served  the  State  as  Chaplain  of  the  Sen- 
ate and  the  House  several  times  and  was  Secretary  of  the 
Senate  one  session,  and  also  Secretaiy  of  the  State  Board 
of  Equalization,  which  was  then  the  Senate.  Through  his 
efforts  the  Chapel  at  the  Penitentiary  was  erected.  His 
character  as  a  member  of  the  annual  Conference  of  the 
Church  is  thus  described  by  one  of  his  cotemporaries : 
' '  Prominent  among  the  older  members  is  Dr.  Prottsman. 
His  humor  is  irrepressible,  but  so  oiled  with  the  grace  of 
kindness  that  the  shaft  pierces  without  hurting  his  victim. 
He  is  game  to  the  core,  fights  in  the  last  ditch  forhismeas- 
ure,  votes  vigorously  in  a  minority  of  one,  then  joins 
heartily  in  the  laugh  that  closes  his  defeat.  Woe  to  the 
man  who  exposed  the  joint  in  his  armor  to  the  keen  eye  of 
this  veteran  archer;  he  let  his  arrow  fly  without  missing 
its  mark.  If  he  had  taken  to  politics,  he  would  have  been 
what  they  call  out  West  a  '  hun  mer . ' ' ' 

The  House  adopted  the  following  resolution : 

"Whereas,  To  day,  the  nireteenth  day  of  l-ebruary,  1897, 
is  the  eightieth  birthday  of  our  beloved  and  respected 
Chaplain,  Rev.  Wm.  M.  Prottsman;  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  the  congratulations  of  this  House  is 
hereby  extended  to  him,  with  the  hope  that  he  may  be 
spared  for  many  more  years  of  usefulness  and  labor  in  the 
divine  cause  of  the  Master. ' ' 


OFFICIAL   FOLDER. 


W. 


H.  H.  BROWN,  the  Official  Folder  of  the  House,  is  a  resident  of 
Jackson  county,  and  is  a  farmer.  He  was  born  in  Johnson  county, 
Mo.,  November  17,  1840,  and  educated  in  the  common  schools.  He  is  a 
Free  Silver  Democrat  of  the  most  pronounced  type.  Served  as  door-keeper 
of  the  House  in  the  Thirty-seventh  General  Assembly  of  Missouri.  Mr. 
Brown  married  Miss  Emma  R.  Cleveland,  of  Johnson  county.  Mo.,  and  from 
this  union  have  been  reared  nine  children — five  sons  and  four  daughters. 

Mr.  Brown  is  a  member  of  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  influential  Missouri 
families,  whose  ancestors  were  among  the  most  prominent  men  of  the  nation, 
being  closely  related  to  ex-United  States  Senators  Bedford  Brown,  of  North 
Carolina,  and  Joe  Brown,  of  Georgia,  and  an  own  cousin  of  United  States 
Senator  J.  N.  Dolph,  of  Oregon.  Mr.  Brown's  father,  James  S.  Brown,  was 
born  in  North  Carolina  and  came  to  Missouri  in  1828  from  Kentucky  and 
located  in  Johnson  county,  Mo.,  where  he  became  one  of  the  most  extensive  farmers  and  stock-raisers  in  the  west. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  was  connected  with  the  well-known  firm  of  Russell,  Majors  and  Waddell — the  most  exten 
sive  and  famous  overland  freighters  in  the  world.  He  died  in  Johnson  county  in  1890,  where  his  family  has  resided 
continuously  for  more  than  half  a  century.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  has  made  a  capable  and  efficient  officer  of  both 
the  Thirty-seventh  and  Thirty-ninth  General  Assemblies  and  is  deservedly  popular  with  the  members  of  both  Houses 
of  the  two  Legislatures  in  which  he  has  served. 


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READING   CLERK. 


H. 


MARTIN  WILLIAMS,  Reading  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives, was  born  in  Knox  county,  Ohio,  August  7,  1840;  was  educated 
in  the  common  schools  of  his  native  county  and  at  the  High  school 
at  Johnstown,  Ohio;  began  teaching  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  and  taught 
almost  continually  for  ten  years.  Began  reading  law  in  i860,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1867,  and  practiced  law  at  Crestline,  Ohio;  until 
October,  1869,  when  he  removed  to  Missouri  and  settled  at  Holden,  Johnson 
county.  He  continued  the  practice  of  law  until  1874,  when  he  removed  to 
Warrensbug,  for  the  purpose  of  taking  charge  of  the  jol-inson  County  Demo- 
crat, and  advocating  the  candidacy  of  General  Francis  M.  Cockrell  for 
Governor.  After  the  defeat  of  Cockrell  for  Governor  by  one  sxth  of  one 
vote  Mr.  Williams  began  a  campaign  for  Cockrell  for  United  States  Senator, 
and  his  paper  soon  obtained  a  State  wide  reputation  as  one  of  the  foremost 
advocates  of  Democracy  in  the  State.  He  severed  his  connection  with  the 
Democrat  in  March,  1875,  and  took  a  position  in  the  State  Auditor's  office, 
where  he  remained  until  September  of  that  year,  wl  en  he  resigned  for  the 
purpose  of  again  embarking  in  the  newspaper  business.  During  the  next 
two  years  he  edited  the  Glenwood  Criterion  and  the  Fredericktown  JefiFer- 
sonian.  In  May,  1878,  he  returned  to  Warren.'burg  and  established  the 
Warrensburg  Press.  In  June  following,  he  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Green- 
back party,  and  during  the  next  ten  years,  was  an  active  champion  of  the  principles  of  that  party,  speaking  in  many 
States  of  the  Union.  When  President  Cleveland  sent  his  celebrated  tariflf  message  to  Congress  in  December,  1887, 
Mr.  Williams  returned  to  the  Democratic  party.  Since  then,  he  has  fought  a  ceaseless  battle  for  the  cause  of  Jeffersonian 
Democracy,  and  has  achieved  a  national  reputation  as  a  political  speaker  and  writer.  In  1892,  he  was  a  candidate  for 
Presidential  elector  from  the  Ninth  Congressional  District.  He  is  a  leading  advocate  of  the  Single  Tax  doctrine  as  a 
remedy  for  existing  social  wrongs,  and  has  brought  thousands  to  his  belief  by  his  able  and  persistent  advocacy  of 
that  idea.  He  is  radical  in  his  political  opinions,  and  perfectly  fearless  and  independent  in  the  advocacy  of  his  views, 
and  with  the  faith  of  all  reformers,  believes  that  one  day,  the  principles  which  he  holds  dear  as  life  itself,  will  be 
crystalized  into  the  laws  and  institutions  of  our  government. 


READING  CLERK  POLLARD. 


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UDGE  WILLIAM  JEFF  POLLARD,  better  known  as  plain  Jeff  Pollard,  was 
born  in  Kingston.  Caldwell  county,  Missouri,  in  1860,  and  was  raised  in  St. 
Louis.  His  father,  Hon.  Wm.  S.  Pollard,  was  a  wealthy  citizen  of  North  Mis- 
souri, and  held  the  office  of  Circuit  Clerk  and  Representative  of  Caldwell 
county  for  many  years.  At  the  breaking:  out  of  the  war  he  espoused  the  Southern 
cause,  and  lost  his  fortune.  Judge  Pollard  entered  politics  in  1888— he  has  been  a 
prominent  figure  in  St.  Louis  as  well  as  State  politics  since  tliat  time.  He  was  selec- 
ted by  Governor  David  R.  Francis  when  he  Ix'canu'  a  ciuulidate  for  the  Democratic 
nomination  for  Governor  in  1888  to  handle  his  campaign  and  look  after  his  interests 
in  several  counties  in  the  northern  ])art  of  tlie  State,  .ludge  i'ollard  was  ai)pointed 
to  a  position  in  the  Water  Rates  ottice  in  l8S>.l.  which  he  resigned  to  accept  tlie  office 
of  Justice  of  the  Peace  of  the  iMmrteentli  Distiict,  to  whicli  lie  was  elected  without 
opposition.  Has  been  repeatedly  appointed  by  Mayor  Edward  A.  Xoonan,  Acting 
Judge  of  llie  First  and  Second  District  Police  Courts,  during  the  absence  of  the  regu- 
larly ajjpointed  judges.  The  heavy  fines  \»e  imposed  ni)on  the  tiiugs  and  hoodlums, 
has  made  him  a  terror  to  the  evil-doer.  His  ruling  declaring  arrests  without  war- 
rants ])y  the  police,  for  violations  of  tUe  city  ordinances,  illegal,  and  his  prompt 
discharge  of  every  one  so  arrested,  won  for  him  the  indorsement  of  the  public,  and 
the  entire  press  of  tlie  city.  Judge  Pollard  was  a  candidate  for  the  Democratic 
nomination  for  Lieutenant-Governor  of  Missouri.  1893.  Though  not  nominated  he 
received  a  large  and  flattering  vote.  .Judge  Pollard  lias  won  a  national  reputation 
as  a  Reading  Clerk,  although  he  has  figured  for  many  ^ears  as  a  Reading  Clerk,  it  is 
only  necessary  to  publish  his  wonderful  record  during  the  figlit  for  free  silver  to  show  the  reputation  the  Judge  has  made  as 
"theman  witli  a  voice."  He  was  Assistant  lieading  Secictaiy  of  the  Kansas  City  Democratic  State  Convention  in  1894.  and  read 
the  silver  platform  written  by  Richard  P.  Bland  of  ^Missouri  and  adojited  by  the  convention.  Next  he  was  made  Reading  Secre- 
tary of  tlie  Missouri  Democratic  i'eitle  Si)iiiigs  Convention  of  1S!).">.  of  which  Mr.  Bland  was  Cliairman.  Then  he  was  botli  Tempor- 
ary Secretary  and  Reading  Secretary  of  tlie  Sedalia  Democratic  Convention,  which  selected  delegates  to  the  Democratic  National 
Convention  at  Chicago,  and  declared  for  Mr.  Bland  for  President.  Following  this  he  was  one  oi  the  permanent  Reading  Secre- 
taries of  the  National  Convention  at  Chicago,  which  nominated  William  J.  Bryan  for  President,  and  called  the  roll  when  the 
stampede  was  made  to  Bryan.  Then  later,  in  St.  Louis,  he  was  Chief  Reading  Secretary  of  the  National  Silver  ConA'ention,  which 
also  nominated  Mr.  Bryan,  and  was  appointed  by  Permanent  Chairman  Wm.  P.  St.  John  of  that  convention  to  go  before  the 
National  Populist  Convention,  then  also  in  session  in  St.  Louis,  and  read  the  platform  adopted  by  the  National  Silver  Convention 
and  make  the  announcement  of  the  nomination  of  Bryan  and  Sewell.  Then  followed  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Bryan  by  the  Popu- 
list party.  After  this  Judge  I'ollard  was  Reading  Secretary  of  the  Democratic  State  Convention  at  Jefferson  City,  which  nomi- 
nated Lon  V.  Stephens  for  Governor;  also  Reading  Secretary  of  the  Judicial  Convention  for  the  Eastern  District  of  Missouri, 
which  met  in  St.  Louis  and  nominated  Judge  Charles  C.  Bland.  l)r()ther  of  Richard  P.  Bland,  for  Judge  of  the  St.  Louis  Court  of 
Appeals,  and  finally  was  Reading  Secretary  of  the  Twelfth  District  Democratic  Convention,  which  nominated  Robert  H.  Kem 
for  Congress  Judge  Pollard's  convention  career  in  the  free  silver  fight  v/as  rounded  out  in  October.  1896,  when  he  was  made 
Reading  Secretary  of  the  Second  Quadrennial  Convention  of  the  National  Association  of  Democratic  Clubs  of  the  United  States 
that  assembled  in  the  great  Auditorium  in  St.  Louis  and  was  presided  over  by  Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  A.  E.  Steven- 
son. Judge  Pollard  was  appointed  Reading  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives  and  has  given  general  satisfaction.  Judge 
Pollard  was  honored  by  being  selected  by  unanimous  vote  of  the  House  as  a  member  of  the  Reception  Committee  to  receive  Hon. 
Wm.  J.  Bryan  when  he  addressed  the  House  during  the  session  by  invitation. 


WILLIAM M.  PROTTSMAN. 


THE  calendar  history  of  all  men  is  very  simple.  But 
upon  this  plain  outline  all  men  work  out  the  chief 
end  of  their  existence— human  character.  Reputa- 
tion may  be  as  evanescent  as  the  shifting  scenes  of  a 
dieam,  but  character  is  the  man  forever  and  ever. 

There  is  really  but  little  interest  in  the  duties  and  official 
titles  of  men,  but  the  deeds  achieved,  the  virtues  matured, 
and  the  character  developed,  are  the  chief  points  of  ob- 
servation. 

Licensed  to  preach  under  the  Discipline  of  the  Methodist 
Church  in  lcS4i2,  he  traveled  as  an  itinerant  preacher  of  that 
Church  in  the  States  of  Virginia,  Kentucky,  Missouri  and 
California. 

Mr.  Prottsman  served  the  State  as  Chaplain  of  the  Sen- 
ate and  the  House  several  times  and  was  Secretary  of  the 
Senate  one  session,  and  also  Secretary  of  the  State  Board 
of  Equalization,  which  was  then  the  Senate.  Through  his 
efforts  the  Chapel  at  the  Penitentiary  was  erected.  His 
character  as  a  member  of  the  annual  Conference  of  the 
Church  is  thus  described  by  one  of  his  cotemporaries : 
' '  Prominent  among  the  older  members  is  Dr.  Prottsman. 
His  humor  is  irrepressible,  but  so  oiled  with  the  grace  of 
kindness  that  the  shaft  pierces  without  hurting  his  victim. 
He  is  game  to  the  core,  fights  in  the  last  ditch  for  his  meas- 
ure, votes  vigorously  in  a  minority  of  one,  then  joins 
heartily  in  the  laugh  that  closes  his  defeat.  Woe  to  the 
man  who  exposed  the  joint  in  his  armor  to  the  keen  eye  of 
this  veteran  archer;  he  let  his  arrow  fly  without  missing 
its  mark.  If  he  had  taken  to  politics,  he  would  have  been 
what  they  call  out  West  a  '  hun  mer . ' ' ' 

The  House  adopted  the  following  resolution : 

"Whereas,  To  day,  the  nireteenth  day  of  February,  1897, 
is  the  eightieth  birthday  of  our  beloved  and  respected 
Chaplain,  Rev.  Wm.  M.  Prottsman;  therefore,  belt 

Resolved,  That  the  congratulations  of  this  House  is 
hereby  extended  to  him,  with  the  hope  that  he  may  be 
spared  for  many  more  years  of  usefulness  and  labor  in  the 
divine  cause  of  the  Master. ' ' 


OFFICIAL   FOLDER. 


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H.  H.  BROWN,  the  Official  Folder  of  the  House,  is  a  resident  of 
Jackson  county,  and  is  a  farmer.  He  was  born  in  Johnson  county, 
Mo.,  November  17,  1840,  and  educated  in  the  common  schools.  He  is  a 
Free  Silver  Democrat  of  the  most  pronounced  type.  Served  as  door-keeper 
of  the  House  in  the  Thirty-seventh  General  Assembly  of  Missouri.  Mr. 
Brown  married  Miss  Emma  R.  Cleveland,  of  Johnson  county,  Mo.,  and  from 
this  union  have  been  reared  nine  children — five  sons  and  four  daughters. 

Mr.  Brown  is  a  member  of  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  influential  Missouri 
families,  whose  ancestors  were  among  the  most  prominent  men  of  the  nation, 
being  closely  related  to  ex -United  States  Senators  Bedford  Brown,  of  North 
Carolina,  and  Joe  Brown,  of  Georgia,  and  an  own  cousin  of  United  States 
Senator  J.  N.  Dolph,  of  Oregon.  Mr.  Brown's  father,  James  S.  Brown,  was 
born  in  North  Carolina  and  came  to  Missouri  in  1828  from  Kentucky  and 
located  in  Johnson  county,  Mo.,  where  he  became  one  of  the  most  extensive  farmers  and  stock-raisers  in  the  west. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  was  connected  with  the  well-known  firm  of  Russell,  Majors  and  Waddell — the  most  exten 
sive  and  famous  overland  freighters  in  the  world.  He  died  in  Johnson  county  in  1890,  where  his  family  has  resided 
continuously  for  more  than  half  a  century.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  has  made  a  capable  and  efficient  officer  of  both 
the  Thirty-seventh  and  Thirty-ninth  General  Assemblies  and  is  deservedly  popular  with  the  members  of  both  Houses 
of  the  two  Legislatures  in  which  he  has  served. 


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READING   CLERK. 


MARTIN  WILLIAMS,  Reading  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives, was  born  in  Knox  county,  Ohio,  August  7,  1840;  was  educated 
'  in  the  common  schools  of  his  native  county  and  at  the  High  school 
at  Johnstown,  Ohio;  began  teaching  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  and  taught 
almost  continually  for  ten  years.  Began  reading  law  in  i860,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1867,  and  practiced  law  at  Crestline,  Ohio;  until 
October,  1869,  when  he  removed  to  Missouri  and  settled  at  Holden,  Johnson 
county.  He  continued  the  practice  of  law  until  1874,  when  he  removed  to 
Warrensbug,  for  the  purpose  of  taking  charge  of  the  jol-inson  County  Demo- 
crat, and  advocating  the  candidacy  of  General  Francis  M.  Cockrell  for 
Governor.  After  the  defeat  of  Cockrell  for  Governor  by  one  s'xth  of  one 
vote  Mr.  Williams  began  a  campaign  for  Cockrell  for  United  States  Senator, 
and  his  paper  soon  obtained  a  Statewide  reputation  as  one  of  the  foremost 
advocates  of  Democracy  in  the  State.  He  severed  his  connection  with  the 
Democrat  in  March,  1875,  and  took  a  position  in  the  State  Auditor's  office, 
where  he  remained  until  September  of  that  year,  when  he  resigned  for  the 
purpose  of  again  embarking  in  the  newspaper  business.  During  the  next 
two  years  he  edited  the  Glenwood  Criterion  and  the  Fredericktown  Jeffer- 
sonian.  In  May,  1878,  he  returned  to  Warren-'^burg  and  established  the 
Warrensburg  Press.  In  June  following,  he  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Green- 
back party,  and  during  the  next  ten  years,  was  an  active  champion  of  the  principles  of  that  party,  speaking  in  many 
States  of  the  Union.  When  President  Cleveland  sent  his  celebrated  tariff  message  to  Congress  in  December,  1887, 
Mr.  Williams  returned  to  the  Democratic  party.  Since  then,  he  has  fought  a  ceaseless  battle  for  the  cause  of  Jeffersonian 
Democracy,  and  has  achieved  a  national  reputation  as  a  political  speaker  and  writer.  In  1892,  he  was  a  candidate  for 
Presidential  elector  from  the  Ninth  Congressional  District.  He  is  a  leading  advocate  of  the  Single  Tax  doctrine  as  a 
remedy  for  existing  social  wrongs,  and  has  brought  thousands  to  his  belief  by  his  able  and  persistent  advocacy  of 
that  idea.  He  is  radical  in  his  political  opinions,  and  perfectly  fearless  and  independent  in  the  advocacy  of  his  views, 
and  with  the  faith  of  all  reformers,  believes  that  one  day,  the  principles  which  he  holds  dear  as  life  itself,  will  be 
crystalized  into  the  laws  and  institutions  of  our  government. 


READING  CLERK  POLLARD. 


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UDGE  WILLIAM  JEFF  POLLARD,  better  known  as  plain  Jeff  Pollard,  was 
born  in  Kingston,  Caldwell  county,  Missouri,  in  1860,  and  was  raised  in  St. 
Louis.  His  father,  Hon.  Wm.  S.  Pollard,  was  a  wealthy  citizen  of  North  Mis- 
souri, and  held  the  ofHce  of  Circuit  Clerk  and  Repre.sentative  of  Caldwell 
county  for  many  years.  At  the  breakinj?  out  of  the  war  he  espoused  the  Southern 
cause,  and  lost  his  fortune.  Judge  Pollard  entered  politics  in  1888— lie  has  been  a 
prominent  iigure  in  St.  Louis  as  wi'll  iis  Slate  politics  since  tliattime.  He  was  selec- 
ted by  Governor  David  R.  Francis  wlicn  he  becaiiu'  a  i-andidalt'  for  the  Democratic 
nomination  for  Governor  in  isss  to  liandlc  liis  caiiipaiuii  and  look  after  his  interests 
in  several  counties  in  the  northci-ii  part  of  the  State.  .Iiul^ie  Pollard  was  ai)pointed 
to  a  position  in  the  Water  Rates  offlce  in  iss'.t.  which  he  resigned  to  accept  the  office 
of  Justice  of  the  Peace  of  the  Fourteentli  District,  to  whicii  he  was  elected  without 
opposition.  Has  been  repeatedly  api)ointed  by  Mayor  Edward  A.  Noonan,  Acting 
Judge  of  the  First  and  Second  I  )istrict  Police  Courts,  during  the  absence  of  the  regu- 
larly appointed  judges.  The  heavy  fines  l>e  imposed  upon  the  thugs  and  hoodlums, 
has  made  him  a  terror  to  the  evil-doer.  His  ruling  declaring  sirrests  without  war- 
rants by  the  police,  for  violations  of  t\ie  city  ordinances,  illegal,  and  his  prompt 
discharge  of  every  one  so  arrested,  won  for  him  the  indorsement  of  the  public,  and 
the  entire  press  of  the  city.  Judge  Pollard  was  a  candidate  for  the  Democratic 
nomination  for  Lieutenant-Governor  of  Missouri.  18i)3.  Though  not  nominated  he 
received  a  larg<'  and  flattering  vote.  Judge  Pollard  has  won  a  national  reputation 
as  a  Keailing  Clerk,  although  he  has  figured  for  many  years  as  a  Reading  Clerk,  it  is 
only  necessary  to  publish  his  wonderful  record  during  the  tight  for  free  silver  to  show  the  reputation  the  Judge  has  made  as 
"the  man  with  a  voice."  He  was  Assistant  Reading  Secretary  of  the  Ivansas  City  Democratic  State  Convention  in  1804.  and  read 
the  silver  ijlat form  written  by  Rii-liaid  P.  Plaiid  of  Missouri  and  adopted  by  the  convention  .  Next  lie  was  iiiacU' Reading  Secre- 
tary of  tlie  Missouri  Democratic  Pertle  S))i'ings  Convention  of  1895.  of  which  Mr.  Bland  was  Ciiairnian.  Then  he  was  both  Tempor- 
ary Secretary  and  Reading  Seci'etaiy  of  the  Sedalia  Democrat  ic*  Convention,  which  selected  delegates  to  tlie  Democratic  National 
Convention  at  Chicago,  and  declai-ed  for  Mi'.  Hland  t'oi'  President .  i'ollowing  this  hi'  was  one  oi  the  permanent  Reading  Secre- 
taries of  the  National  Convention  at  Chicago,  which  nominated  William  .(.Bryan  for  President,  and  c;illed  tlie  roll  when  the 
stampede  was  made  to  Bi'yan.  Tln'ii  later,  in  St.  Louis,  he  was  Chief  Heading  Secretary  of  the  National  Silver  Convention,  which 
also  nominated  Mr.  Bryan,  and  was  appointed  1)y  Permanent  Chairman  Win.  P.  St.  John  of  tliat  convention  to  go  before  the 
National  Populist  Convention,  then  also  in  session  in  St.  Louis,  and  read  the  iilatform  adopted  by  the  National  Silvei'  Convention 
and  make  the  announcement  of  the  nomination  of  Bryan  and  Sewell.  Then  followed  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Bryan  liy  the  Popu- 
list party.  After  this  Judge  Pollard  was  Iteading  S(!cretary  of  the  Democratic  State  Convention  at  Jefferson  City,  which  nomi- 
nated Lon  V.  Stephens  for  Governor;  also  Reading  Secretary  of  the  Judicial  Convention  for  the  Eastern  District  of  Missouri, 
which  met  in  St.  Louis  and  nominatefl  .Judge  Charles  C.  Bland,  brother  of  Richard  P.  Bland,  for  Judge  of  the  St.  Louis  Court  of 
Appeals,  and  finally  was  Reading  Secretary  of  the  Twelfth  District  Democratic  Convention,  which  nominated  Robert  H.  Kem 
for  Congress.  Judge  Pollard's  convention  career  in  tlie  free  silver  fight  was  rounded  out  in  October,  isyti,  when  he  was  made 
Reading  Secretary  of  the  Second  Quadrennial  Convention  of  the  National  Association  of  Democratic  Clubs  of  the  United  States 
that  assembled  in  the  great  Auditorium  in  St.  Louis  and  was  presided  over  by  Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  A.  E,  Steven- 
son. Judge  Pollard  was  appointed  Reading  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives  and  has  given  general  satisfaction.  Judge 
Pollard  was  honored  by  being  selected  by  unanimous  vote  of  the  House  as  a  member  of  the  Reception  Committee  to  receive  Hon. 
Wm.  J.  Bryan  when  he  addressed  the  House  during  the  session  by  invitation. 


ASSISTANT  DOOR-KEEPER. 


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*HERE  was  no  employee  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  better 
known  than  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Mr.  John  Trimble,  the  affable 
and  accommodating  Assistant  Door-keeper  of  the  House.  Mr.  Trimble  was 
born  in  West  Virginia,  June  23,  1834;  moved  with  his  parents  to  Illinois  in 
1 84 1.  When  seventeen  years  of  age  he  made  an  overland  trip  to  California 
and  remained  on  the  Pacific  Coast  for  thirteen  years.  He  returned  to  Illi- 
nois in  1865,  but  soon  turned  his  face  again  toward  the  untamed  and 
unbroken  prairies  of  the  West.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  engaged  in 
the  overland  freight  business  from  the  Missouri  river  to  Colorado.  In  1870 
Mr.  Trimble  settled  in  Bates  county,  one  of  the  best  counties  of  the  State, 
and  a  year  afterward  married  Miss  Mary  Hemstreet,  an  Iowa  lady.  He  has 
held  various  positions  of  trust  in  his  county.  In  the  Thirty-fifth  General  Assembly  he  was  Messenger  Clerk  of  the 
House,  Mail  Clerk  of  the  Senate  of  the  Thirty-sixth;  member  of  the  Secretary's  Staff  in  the  Thirty-seventh;  Clerk  of 
Committee  on  Enrolled  Bills  in  the  Thirty-eighth,  and  Assistant  Door-keeper  of  the  House  in  the  Thirty-ninth. 

Mr.  Trimble  was  always  faithful  and  efficient  in  the  discharge  of  his  official  duties.     He  has  a  host  of  friends  in 
the  Thirty- ninth  General  Assembly. 


LIBRARY  CLERK. 


the  thraldom  of  Republicanism, 
having  died  four  years  ago. 


EVERY  member  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly  is  well  acquainted 
with  Mr.  E.  S.  Bement,  the  Library  Clerk  on  the  Doorkeeper's  force. 
No  employe  of  the  House  was  more  ready  to  accommodate  the  members  than 
"Bert"  as  he  was  familiarly  called.  His  courteous  mauners  and  willingness 
to  perform  his  duties  made  him  a  favorite.  He  was  born  in  Chillicothe,  Mo., 
in  1871,  and  moved  with  his  parents  to  Howell  county  in  1882.  After  assist- 
ing his  father  in  the  grocery  business  in  West  Plains  a  few  years  he  began 
to  learn  a  trade  more  congenial  to  his  taste,  that  of  a  printer.  Was  local 
editor  of  the  paper  upon  which  he  learned  his  trade;  held  a  lucrative  and 
pleasant  position  at  the  World's  Fair,  '93,  and  Atlanta  Exposition  in  '95.  He 
is  a  Democrat  in  politics  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  campaign  in  Howell 
county  last  fall  and  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  his  county  redeemed  from 
Mr.  Bement  now  lives  with  his  mother  and  sister  at  West  Plains,   Mo.,  his  father 


Group  of  Seven  Members  of  the  Chief  Clerk's  Force. 


Chas.  E.  SuUenger. 
Frank  W.  Bradbury.  Frank  W.  Hagerman. 


i.  L.  Marquis. 
Miss  Mary  Lee. 


W.  W.  Berryman, 

E.  P.  Thompson. 


Brief  Biographical  Sketch  of  Members  of  Group  on  Opposite  Page. 

WALTER  W.  BERRYMAN,  whose  portrait  appears  in  the  group  on  the  opposite  page  (right  of  upper  row),  was 
born  in  Woodford  county,  Kentucky,  in  May,  1866,  where  he  lived  until  ten  years  of  age,  when  he  moved  with  his 
parents  to  Missouri.  His  position  in  the  House  was  that  of  Printing  Clerk,  and  he  discharged  the  duties  of  that 
responsible  place  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  all  parties  concerned.  His  occupation  is  that  of  book-keeper,  and  was 
for  a  number  of  years  with  the  banking  house  of  J.  S.  Fleming,  Jefferson  City.     Single. 

FRANK  W.  HAGERMAN  (Democrat),  whose  portrait  is  second  in  lower  row  of  group  on  opposite  page,  is  a 
member  of  the  Chief  Clerk's  force,  and  was  born  in  Easton,  Pa.,  forty-three  ago  ;  reared  in  Randolph  county,  Ind., 
and  educated  at  Winchester,  Ind.  His  occupation  is  that  of  a  broker  and  commission  man,  but  he  has  devoted  about 
fourteen  years  of  his  life  to  teaching  school — commenced  teaching  at  the  age  of  seventeen.  He  married  Miss  Ida  M. 
Cox,  of  Hamilton  county,  Ind.,  and  has  a  family  of  three  bright  children:  Ernest,  age  14  ;  Leoline,  age  10,  and 
Louise,  age  5.     He  is  a  resident  of  Springfield,  Greene  county. 

CHARLES  E.  SULLENGER  (Democrat),  of  Willow  Springs,  Howell  county,  is  the  handsome  young  gentleman 
who  held  the  important  position  of  Private  Secretary  to  the  Chief  Clerk  of  the  House— his  portrait  is  first  in  the 
upper  row  of  the  group.  He  was  born  in  Ballard  county,  Ky.,  and  is  only  twenty  years  old  ;  was  educated  at  Cairo, 
111.;  his  ambition  in  life  is  to  become  a  lawyer,  for  which  profession  he  is  now  preparing  himself.     Single. 

I.  L.  MARQUIS  (Democrat),  of  Walker,  Chief  Docket  Clerk  of  the  House,  whose  portrait  is  in  the  center  of  the 
upper  row  of  the  group,  was  born  in  St.  Clair  county,  this  State,  and  is  24  years  of  age  ;  was  educated  at  Schell  City 
and  Chillicothe.  Teacher.  Was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Ada  Underwood,  of  Walker,  Mo.  His  position  in  the 
House  was  a  very  responsible  one,  and  Mr.  Marquis  demonstrated  his  ability  and  proved  to  be  the  right  man  in  the 
right  place. 

MISS  MARY  LEE,  of  Jefferson  City,  whose  portrait  appears  in  the  group  on  the  opposite  page,  was  born  in 
Keytesville,  Mo. ;  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Keytesville  and  Jefferson  City.  Her  position  in  the  House 
was  that  of  stenographer  on  the  Chief  Clerk's  force. 

FRANK  W.  BRADBURY,  (Democrat),  of  Jefferson  City,  whose  portrait  appears  first  in  the  lower  row,  is  the  bril- 
liant, genial,  whole-souled,  handsome  young  gentleman  who  has  held  the  position  of  Postmaster  of  the  House  during 
the  past  session  of  the  Legislature.  He  was  born  in  Morgan  county,  this  State,  and  is  twenty-two  years  of  age.  He 
was  Assistant  Postmaster  of  the  Thirty-seventh  General  Assembly.     Single. 

R.  P.  THOMPSON,  whose  portrait  appears  last  on  the  lower  row  of  the  group,  is  the  Assistant  Chief  Clerk  of 
the  House,  and  a  short  biographical  sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this  souvenir. 


LIST  OF  SENATE  EMPLOYEES. 


Name  and  Position. 


POSTOFFICE  AND  COUNTY. 


Name  and  Position. 


POSTOFFICE  AND  COUNTY. 


Abbott,  Dade,  ianitor 

Allen,  W.  H.,bill  clerk 

Allen,  Perry,  page 

Ballard,  Louis  B. ,  corp. ,  etc 

Bargess,  James,  eleemosynary... 
Barrows,  W.  J.  smooth  journal 

Barren,  Wallace,  page 

Beasley, Minerva,  jurisprudence. 
Bogie,  B.  S.,  chf.  engros.  cJk 

Bowers,  J.  A.,  insurance 

Brown,  Robert  H.,  postmaster 
Burns.  J.  M.,  enroll,  clerk 

Carr.  Silas,  stationary 

Carter,  T.  S  ,  chf.  roughjournal. 
Cases,  Miss  Kate,  stenographer.. 
Chandler,  J.  H.,  engross,  clerk 
Chapman,  A. K., smooth  jourial. 
Clamath,  Wm.,  janitor 

Clippard,  Wm. ,  attendant 

Connor,  J.  B.,  typewriter 

Dayisson,  Geo.,  engros.  clerK 

Dawson,  Geo.  S.,  roughjournal. 

Day,  Geo.,  lighter 

Deatharage,  G.  W.  cities  H6,000.. 
DePriest,  L.  H.,  engros.  clerk... 
Dickson,  Thos.  smooth  journal. , 

Dimmett,  E.  E.,  printing 

Disney,  Ed.,  penitentiary 

Dooley,  Clark,  roughjournal 

Dunklin,  John  P. ,  engros.  clerk. 

Dupee,  Geo.  (col.),  attendant 

Edwards,  J  H.,  docket  clerk 

Ellis,  E.  P.,  smooth  journal 

Finks,  J.  H.,  chf,  enroll    elk 

Fisher,  Wm.,   janitor, 


Jeflferson  City,  Cole. 
Clinton,  Henry. 
Clinton,  Heniy. 
Montrose,  Henry. 
Caledonia,  Washington. 
Waynesville,  Pulaski. 
Hercuianeum,  Jett'erson. 
Mineral  Springs,  Howell. 
Richmond.  Ray. 
Sedalia,  Pettis. 
Harrisonville,  Cass. 
Grain  Valley,  Jackson. 
Jonesburg,  iSIontgomery. 
Sturgeon,  Boone. 
6131  V^ictoria Place,  St. Louis, 
Kansas  City,  Jackson. 
Denver.,  ^^■orth. 
Jeflerson  City,  Cole. 
Marble  Hill,  Bollinger. 
2618  Gamble  St.,  St.  Louis. 
Blue  Ridge,  Harrison. 
Grant  City,  Worth. 
Ashland.  Boone.. 
Kansas  City.  Jackson. 
Ecainence,  Shannon. 
Ellington,  Reynolds, 
Butler,  Bates, 
liiberty.  Clay. 
Houston,  Texas. 
Coffman,  St.  Genevieve. 
Jeflerson  City,  Cole. 
St.  Charles,  St.  Charles. 
Commerce,  Scott. 
Salisbury,  Chariton. 
Jeflferson  City,  Cole. 


Foster,  Grover,  page 

Franklin, P. J. , retrench,  reform... 

Friemel,  David,  janitor 

Gordon,  W.  B. ,  engros.  clerk 

Garver,  H.  H.,  night  custodian 

George,  Claude,  cloak  room 

Gill,  Chas.,  attendant 

Given,  Rev.  J.  C,  Chaplain 

Gooding,  C.  J.,  roughjournal 

Green,  A.  P.,  printing 

Halligan,  J.  C. ,  com. engros  bills. 

Hanailton.  Miss  Jene,  education 

Hersley,  W.  L.,  eng    corps 

Hiatt.  Wm.,  enroll,  bills 

Hill.  W.  K.,  attendant 

Howell.  Frank,  copy  clerk 

Hudson,  S.  P.,  stenographer 

Hughey,  G.  W,  justices  of  peace  ... 
Johnson,  Harold,  minority  elk... 

Judge,  Jos.  W.  enroll,  clerk 

Kinspy,  Austin,  typewriter 

Kitch,  Elijah,  folder 

Knox,  W.  P.,  bill  file  clerk 

Lancaster,  A.  A.,  library  clerk 

Leftwich,  John  M.,  accounts 

LaPage,  Prosser,  janilor  

Mabry,  Walter,  assistant  sec'y 

Major,  S.  R.  doorkeeper 

Major,  James  J.,  enroll,  clerk 

Mann,  Miss  S.  K.,  stenog 

Mai-vin,  E.  R.,  official  reporter 
Mason,  Miss  Alice,  const,  amend. 
Mayhall,  Ed.,  supt.  heat,  etc 
McCutcheon.  W.  L.,  towns  organ 
Mclntyre,  J.  C,  enroll,  clerk 


Kansas  City,  Jackson. 
Kansas  City,  Jackson. 
Jefferson  City.  Cole. 
Kenett.  Dunklin. 
Grant  City,  Worth. 
Platte  City,  Platte. 
310.5  Olive  St.,  St.  Louis. 
Jefferson  City,  Cole. 
5621  Wabash  Ave.,  St.  Louis. 
Jefferson  City.  Cole. 
Union,  Franklin. 
Richmond,  Ray. 
Bonne  Terre,  St.  Francois. 
Cabol,  Texas. 
Warrenton,  Warren. 
Troy,  Lincoln. 
Sturgeon,  Boone. 
Springfield,  Greene. 
81634 Chestnut  St.  Louis. 
lOls'Hamilton  Ave  .St.  Louis 
Carrollton,  Carroll. 
Poplar  Bluffs,  Butler. 
Caledonia,  Washington. 
1130  Compton  Ave. ,  St.  Louis 
Benton,  Scott. 
Jefferson  City,  Cole. 
Wellsville,  Montgomery, 
Bowling  Green,  Pike. 
Pans,  Monroe. 
Jefferson  City.  Cole. 
Kansas  City,  Jackson. 
Mexico,  Audrain. 
Bowling  Green.  Pike. 
Pleasant  Hill,  Cass. 
Fulton,  Callaway. 


LIST  OF  SENATE  EMPLOYEES.— Continued. 


Name  and  Position. 


POSTOFFICE  AND  COUNTY. 


Name  and  Position. 


POSTOFFICE  AND  COUNTY. 


McMinn.  J.  S.,  ways  and  means... 

MochltT.  Geo  .  elections 

Moore.  Thos..  page 

Niemeyer.  John,  nlglit  engineer.. 

Peers.  E.  Porter,  judiciary 

Priest.  Chas.  P..  rougli  journal 

Ray.  K.  I).,  smooth  journal 

Kerder,  Harry,  enr.  clerk 

Rhodes,  John,  janitor 

Rice,  Bohert,  janitor 

Rinn.  Frank,  janitor 

Roach.  Cornelius  sec'y  senate 

Robinson.  John.  eng.  clerk 

Rothgeb.  I).  L  .  eng.  clerk 

Rothwell.  Rolla.  eng.  clerk 

Samuel,  R.  L.,  enr.  clerk 

Sanderson,  R.  J.,  smooth  journal. 

Selzer,  Fritz.  api)r()])rijitions 

Slater,  R.  .S.  cni'.  clerk t*. 

Soper,  Lee.  docket  clerk 

Sparks.  J.  W.,  eng.  clerk 

Spencer,  Park  K.,  janitor 

Stanton.  Eugene,  page 

Steele,  W.  C.  janitor 

Stevenson,  H.  C.  minority  clerk... 
Taylor.  J.  J.,  mail  clerk 


Zalma.  Bollinger. 
St.  Louis  City. 
Bowling  Green.  Pike. 
Jetferson  City.  Cole. 
Warrenton,  Warren. 
Jackson.  Cape  Girardeau. 
Carrollton,  Carroll. 
Lexington.  Lafayette. 
Cedar  City.  Callaway. 
Jefferson  City,  Cole. 
Jefferson  City,  Cole. 
Carthage.  Jasper. 
Clianiois.  Osage. 
New  Lebanon,  Cooper. 
iNIoberly,  Randolph. 
Kansas  City,  JacKson. 
Louisiana.  Pike. 
Hunnewell.  Shelby. 
Kansas  City,  Jackson. 
Liberty.  Clay. 
Marshall  Saline. 
Louisiana.  I'ike. 
Ste.  Genevieve,  Ste.  Gen've. 
Rolla,  Phelps. 
California,  Moniteau. 
Caledonia.  Washington. 


'Thein,  Miss  Kate,  smooth  journal.. 

Thompson.  1).  F.,  engr.  clerk 

Thompson,  James,  janitor 

Tilden,  C.  B..  sergeant-at-arms 

Towles,  H.  M..  eng.  clerk 

Tomlinson.  Jouett.  labor 

Towne.  Edward,  page 

Townsend,  W.  L..  minute  clerk... 

Tutt.  Will.  enr.  clerk 

limbics.  Peter,  (col)  attendant 

Valle,  Louis,  (col)  janitor 

Vickars,  J.  H.,  bill  file  clerk 

Waggener.  J.  H..  agriculture 

Walsh.  A.  F.,  clerk  on  absentees... 
Weaver.  John  N.,  day  custodian... 

^^'ells.  D.,  janitor 

Wells,  .T.  T.,  assistant  sergt.  arms.. 

White.  Malon.  enroll,  clerk 

Wilson,  E.  L..  railroads.. 

Williams,  Robert,  enroll  clerk 

Womack.  R..  chf.  smooth  journal,. 

Woodside.  IL  copy  clerk 

Woods.  C.  R.,  smootli  journal. 

Yeates.  Dr.  S.  N..  library  clerk 

Young.  C.  A.,  criminal  cost 

Zoll,  C.  IL,  engross,  clerk 


Jefferson  City,  Cole. 
Tuscumbia.  Miller. 
J  eft'erson  City.  Cole. 
Sulpher  Springs.  Jefferson. 
Doniphan.  Ripley. 
Mexico.  Audrain. 
Liberty,  Clay. 
Hillsboro.  Jefferson. 
Borland.  Lafayette. 
Pilot  Grove,  Cooper. 
Allentown,  St.  Louis. 
Montrose.  Henry. 
l'"cstus.  ^Madison. 
Kansas  City,  .lackson. 
New  Loiiclon,  Ralls. 
Bowling  Green,  Pike. 
Kcnnett.  Dunklin. 
Warsaw.  Henton . 
Denver.  ^V■ol■tll. 
Louisiana,  I'ike. 
Hannibal.  Mai'ion. 
Thomas vi He.  Oregon. 
Neosho.  Newton. 
Sturgeon,  Boone. 
Jefferson  City,  Cole. 
Sedalia,  Pettis. 


LIST  OF  EMPLOYEES  OF  THE  HOUSE. 


Name  and  Position. 


POSTOFFICE  AND  OOUNTY. 


Name  and  Position. 


POSTOFFICE  AND  COUNTY. 


Adam,  Owen,  page - 

Arnett,  R.  C,  Eng.  clerk 

Avery.  W.  E..  rough  journal 

Aycock.  W.  .1.,  enrolling  clerk 

Bailey.  Al.  janitor 

Ualthis.  F.  S.,  elk.  com.  bnks.&  bnkg 

Barr.  S.  E.  rougli  journal 

Bement.  Bert,  library  clerk 

Berryman.  W.  W.  printing  clerk 

Bourn,  B.  J.  elk.  com.  crim.  costs 

Bradbury.  F.  W.,  postmaster 

Brown,  Forest,  ass't  postmaster 

Blown,  II.  L.  janitor 

Brown!  W.  H.  H.,  folder 

Buck,  O.  elk.  com.  ways  &  means 

Burk.  A.  J.,  smooth  journal 

Carey.  Joe  M.,  page 

Church,  Chas.  It.,  eng.  clerk 

Clarke,  .las.  M..  eng.  clerk 

Colburn.  J.  P.,  enr.  clerk 

Collier.  U.  E.,  elk.  com.  elee'm'y  inst 

Cook.  G.  B.,  enr.  clerk... 

Cruml)augh.  Ed.  J.,  bill  clerk 

Culln-rtsoii.  W.  C.  elk.  com.  agricl.  . 
Cunningliam,  Ed,  smooth  journal... 

Cupp,  Henry  C,  minute  clerk 

Daugherty,  C.  F.  rough  journal 

Daugherty,  .J.  M..  docket  clerk 

DavHult,  Alf,  page 

Dickinson,  J.  J.,  elk.  com.  educa't 
Dougherty,  G.  A.,  sup.  sm'th  jour.. 

Durham.  L.  E..  smooth  journal 

Duvall,  .T.  A.,  rough  journal 

Edmonston,  W.  (\,  enr.  clerk 

Ellis,  Hosea,  janitor 

Evans,  Chas.,  smooth  journal 


Popular  Bluff.  Butler 
Frederick  town.  Madison. 
St.  Louis  City.  3103  Olive  St. 
Lebanon,  Laclede, 
Troy,  Lincoln. 
Huntsville.  Randolph. 
Vienna,  Maries. 
West  Plains;  Howell. 
.Jeff er.son  ( 'ity.  Cole. 
Memphis.  Scotland. 
Jefferson  City,  Cole. 
Raytown,  Jackson. 
Hinton,  Boone. 
Raytown.  Jackson. 
Bloomfield,  Stoddard. 
Newtonia.  Newton. 
JefPerson  City,  Cole. 
Stockton.  Cedar. 
Dunnigan,  Polk. 
Kansas  City.  Jackson. 
Bircli  Tree,  Shannon. 
Marquand.  Madison. 
Columbia,  Boone. 
Liberty,  Clay. 
Carthage.  Jasper. 
New  London,  Ralls. 
Meyci's.  Howard. 
Higbee.  Howard. 
New  Florence,  Montgomery 
St.  Louis  City. 
Meadville,  Lynn. 
Elston,  Cole. 
Richmond,  Ray. 
Clinton.  Henry. 
Appleton  City.  St.  Clair. 
Pineville,  McDonald. 


Edwards,  H.  A-,  supt,  rough  jour 

Farris,  Fred  L..  eng.  clerk 

Fitch,  Chas.  .T..  messenger  clerk 

Ford.  Smith  M.,  docket  clerk.. 

Forquer.  Joseph,  rough  journal 

Gehrs,  George  M..  rougli  journal 

George.  A.  F..  rougli  journal 

Gill,  Burt  v.,  smooth  journal 

Green,  Charles  W.,  chief  clerk 

Hagerman,  F.  W.,  minute  clerk 

Haley,  Edwin,  speaker's  page 

Hall,  .John,  speaker's  page 

Hamilton,  D..  (Miss)  eng.  clerk 

Hiet,  E.  W..  rough  journal 

Hough.  Ed,  elk.  com.  elections 

Housley,  Oscar  L.,  eng  clerk 

Hughes,  R.  E..  resolution  clerk 

Hunter.  Geo.  W.,  eng  clerk 

Ingllsh,  D..  elk.  com.  crim 

.Tames,  Bertie,  page 

Johnson.  O.  T.  enr.  clerk 

Joliiiston.  C.  L..  official  reporter 

.Jones,  J.  H.,  printing  clerk 

Jones,  T.  H.,  calendar  clerk 

Ivaup,  W.  A.,  endorsing  clerk 

Ivellogg,  A  D.,  smooth  journal 

Ivenamore,  C,  elk.  com.  jut.  ptg 

IvribJjen,  A.  C.  cjk.  com.  accts 

.Ivuhlman,  Henry,  enr.  clerk 

Lee.  Miss  Mary,  stenograplier 

Leedy,  A.,  elk.  com.  eng.  bills 

Leftwich.  G.  A  ,  chief  enr.  elk 

I^ocker.  W.  H.,  ck.  com.  rds  &  hg'ys 

Loftus.  .J.  Pat,  rough  journal 

Lovell.  E.  Frank,  eng.  clerk 

Malone,  Wm.  M..  doorkeeper 


Boonville,  Cooper, 
Lelianon,  Laclede. 
Ijebanon,  Laclede, 
Kansas  City,  Jackson. 
Kansas  i'Aty.  Jackson. 
I'yrmont.  Morgan. 
Stontluiid.  Camden. 
( 'hil locof  lie.  Livingston. 
Brooktield.  Jjynn. 
Springtield,  Green. 
Steelville,  Crawford. 
Marshall.  Saline. 
Warrensburg,  Jolinson. 
New  Lebanon,  Cooper 
Sedalia,  I'ettis. 
Appleton  City,  St.  Clair. 
I'leasant  HIU,  Cass. 
Albany,  Gentry. 
Lamar.  Barton. 
St.  Louis  City.  3121  High  St. 
^^'est ville.  Montgomery 
Warrensburg.  .(ohnsoii  . 
Mill  Springs.  Wayne. 
Ivansas  City,  93S  Grove  St. 
Brookfield.  Linn. 
Ki-ytes ville.  Chariton. 
Salem.  Dent. 
.l()iies))urg.  Montgomery. 
Louisiana,  i^ike. 
.bfferson  City,  Cole. 
-Moutevallo.  Vernon. 
Uiclmiond.  liay. 
Wayiiesville,  Pulaski. 
St.  J>ouis  City. 
Prairie  Home.  Cooper. 
Greenfield.  Dade. 


LIST  OF  EMPLOYEES  OF  THE  HOUSE— Continued. 


Name  and  Position. 


PosTorncE  and  County. 


Name  and  Position. 


PosTOFFiCE  and  County. 


Mauphin.  P.,  janitor 

Marquis.  I.  L..  messenger 

Mashburn.  Marvin,  janitor 

Miller,  Frank  P..  elk.  com.  ins 

Moore,  Jodie,  janitor 

Morris.  Jesse  O..  janitor 

Moss,  M.  H.,  elk.  int.  imp'ts 

MeBrid(\  U.  A.,  enrolling  clerk 

McClanaliiin.  K.  H..  stationery  elk. 

McCleliaiKl.  T.  J.,  enr.  clerk 

McMaiioM.  Russell,  page 

McCrae.  Charles,  page 

Nelson,  I.  E..  elk.  judicial  com 

Newman,  M.  C.  rough  journal 

Newton.  E.  elk.  com.  nuiii   cor 

Nicholson,  Miss  Cora.  enr.  elk 

O'Rell,  Miss  Essie  L.,  elk.  com.  lab 
Organ,  J.  B.,  elk.  jnt.  com.  on  ptg.. 

Orear.  Loen,  page 

Phillips.  R.  S..  elk.  spl.  com.  elec... 

Pollard.  W.  JelT.  reading  clerk 

Prottsman,  W.  M..  chaplain 

Quinn.  Edmund,  elk.  com.  claims  ... 

Rebo.  John,  night  watchman 

Reed,  F.  W,  janitor 

Reynolds,  Joe  B.,  minute  clerk 

Riley,  W.  S..  enr.  clerk 

Robertson.  R.  H..  resolution  elk 

Rogers.  Phil,  rough  journal 

Roland,  W.  L..  janitor 

Ross,  Henry,  enr.  clerk 

Roy,  Sidney  J.,  docket  clerk 

Sapp.  James  H..  enrolling  clerk 

Springer,  Wm.  B..  mes.  ser  at  arms 

See,  Clifton,  night  watchman 

Slianks,  John  A.,  enrolling  clerk .... 


Denver,  Worth. 
Walker,  Vernon. 
Humansville.  Polk. 
Springfield.  Green. 
Linkville,  Platte. 
Westboro.  Atchison. 
Van  Buren.  Carter. 
Warrensburg,  Johnson. 
Milan.  Sullivan. 
Liberty,  Clay. 
Jefferson  City,  Cole. 
Rolla.  Phelps. 
New  Home.  Lincoln. 
Huntsville,  Randolph. 
Springfield.  Green. 
St.  Joseph.  Buchanan. 
Leeper.  Wayne. 
Salem.  Dent. 
Marshall.  Saline. 
Conway.  Laclede. 
St.  Louis  City. 
Jefl'erson  City.  Cole. 
Carthage,  Jasper. - 
Kahoka.  Clarke. 
Reeds.  Jasper. 
Popular  Blult'.  Butler. 
Levick's  Mill.  Randolph. 
Plattsburg.  Clinton. 
St.  Joseph.  Buchanan. 
Marshall.  Saline. 
Marshall.  Saline. 
Hannibal.  Marion. 
Joplin.  .las)K'r. 
Nelson,  Saline. 
Butler,  Bates. 
Killwinning.  Scotland. 


Shortridge.  C.  A.,  ck.  off.  fees  &  sal.. 

Simcoo.  Miss  Carrie,  smooth  jour 

Smedley.  Tlios.  A.,  endr.  elk 

Smitli.  ^liss  Maud  C,  stenographer. 

Smith.  Al.  (col)  janitor 

Sterritt.  J.  B..  rough  journal 

Stewart,  Thos.,  page 

Stewart.  T.  J.,  elk.  com.  pri.  cor 

Sullenger.  Chas.  E..  messenger 

Summers.  A.  ,1..  sergeant  at  arms .... 
Summers,  .T.  C.  asst.  ser.  at  arms... 

Tall.  Joseph  L..  eng  clerk 

Taylor.  J.  M..  printing  clerk 

Terrill.  J.  W.,  elk.  com.  ptg 

Th(ini|)son.  R.  P..  asst.  chief  elk 

Thompson,  C.,  sup.  veatil'n 

Thurber.  George,  watej'  carrier 

Tidrick.  Otto  B..  janitor 

Towles.  T.  O..  elk  com.  appro 

Trimble.  .Tolni.  asst.  door  keeper 

Tui'Mci'.  .lames  A.,  enrolling  clerk. ... 

Vandiveei'.  Lola  M..  enr.  clerk 

Vandiveei-.  Winston,  janitor 

Walters.  Frank,  day  watchman 

Warden.  H.  P..  docket  clerk 

Warren.  Miss  Inez,  eng  clerk 

Warren,  R.  H..  chief  eng.  clerk 

Warren.  W.  B..  eng.  clerk 

Weant,  Emanuel,  .lanitor 

Williams,  H.  Martin,  reading  clerk 

Wilson,  J.  A.,  enrolling  clerk 

Wolf,  L.  Paris,  janitor 

Young.  F..  elk.  com.  university 

Young,  Miss  Katheryn. smooth  jour 
Young,  T.  C,  elk.  com.  cler.  force... 


Macon  City.  Macon. 
Fulton.  Callaway. 
^Marcclline.  Linn. 
St.  Louis  Cy.  28141/2  Lucas  Av 
Sedalia.  I»ettis. 
Sla"  "r.  Saline. 
St.  Joseph.  But'hanan. 
Donipiian.  Ripley. 
Willow  Springs.  Howell. 
Ava,  Douglass. 
Springfield,  (ireene. 
Kahoka.  Clarke. 
Woodland vi lie.  Boone. 
GroviMlale,  Maries, 
Cassville.  Barry. 
Warren sbui'g.  .lohnson. 
Wari'cnsbnrg.  Johnson. 
I  Hloonifield.  Stoddard, 
.letft'rson  City.  Cole. 
Butk'P.  Hates. 
Cafi'ollton.  Carrol. 
Montevallo.  Vernon. 
Monte vallo.  Vernon. 
Lamar,  Barton. 
Mexico.  Audrain. 
El  Doi'ado  Si)rings,  Cedar. 
El  Dorado  Springs,  Cedar. 
Coelleda.  Camden. 
Jefferson  City,  Cole. 
St.  Louis  Cy.  913  N.  Garrison 
Carthage.  Jasper. 
California.  IMoniteau. 
Deer  I'ark,  Boone. 
St.  Joseph,  Buchanan. 
Lexington,  Lafayette. 


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Culture  are  under 
the  instruction  of 
thorough  special- 
ists. 

A  large  Gymnas- 
ium.equipped  thor- 
ousjlily. 

Two  Flourishing 
Literary  Societies; 
each  has  an  ele- 
gan  tly  furnished 
hall. 

Location  beauti- 
ful, healthful;  at- 
tractive three  acre 
campus;  college 
l)uilaing  arranged 
for  c  o  n  V  enience 
and  comfort;  thor- 
oughly ventilated; 
heated  by  steam, 
lighted  by  electric- 
ity. Bath  rooms- 
hot  and  cold  water. 

i'r('i)uratory  and 
College  Departm'ts 
— College  course  is 
higher  tlian  is  usu- 
ally prescribed  for 
young  women. 
Rev.  Hiram  D.  Groves, 
President. 


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